Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1437733 > unrolled thread

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/entry: speed up context-tracking system calls by 150 clock cycles

Back to article view | Back to linux.kernel

This discussion starts older than the indexed window; earlier articles aren't shown. The article labeled Started by below is the oldest one visible, not the original post.

Contents

  Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/entry: speed up context-tracking system calls  by 150 clock cycles Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 15:50 +0200

#1437733 — Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/entry: speed up context-tracking system calls by 150 clock cycles

On 20/06/2016 16:58, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The first patches are the two optimizations I posted on May 30th
> for the system call entry/exit code.  The only change is in the
> function names, which use the user_{enter,exit}_irqoff favored
> by Andy and Ingo.  The first patch matches what commit d0e536d8939
> ("context_tracking: avoid irq_save/irq_restore on guest entry and exit",
> 2015-10-28) did for guest entry and exit.  The second simply adds
> an inline annotation; the compiler doesn't figure it out because the
> function is not static.
> 
> The second two patches move guest_{enter,exit} to the same naming
> convention, removing the KVM wrappers kvm_guest_{enter,exit} and
> __kvm_guest_{enter,exit} in the process.  I would like these two to
> go through the KVM tree because I have other optimizations for 4.8
> on top of these patches.
> 
> Thanks,

Ingo,

ping for these two patches:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2248541/raw
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/153909/raw

Thanks,

Paolo

[toc] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | linux.kernel

csiph-web