Re: [PATCH 02/10] KVM: emulate: move Src2Shift up one bit

From: Chang S. Bae
Date: Mon Nov 17 2025 - 14:52:17 EST


On 11/13/2025 4:36 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
An irresistible microoptimization (changing accesses to Src2 to just an
AND :)) that also frees a bit for AVX in the low flags word. This makes
it closer to SSE since both of them can access XMM registers, pointlessly
shaving another clock cycle or two (maybe).

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, this looks sane to me as well:
Reviewed-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@xxxxxxxxx