[PATCH v4 0/2] arm/arm64: KVM: Optimize arm64 fp/simd, saves 30-50% on exits

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Fri Jul 17 02:28:23 PDT 2015


On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:29:36PM -0700, Mario Smarduch wrote:
> Currently we save/restore fp/simd on each exit. The first patch optimizes arm64
> save/restore, we only do so on Guest access. hackbench and several lmbench
> tests show anywhere from 30% to 50% of exits don't context switch the vfp/simd
> registers.
> 
> For second patch 32-bit handler is updated to keep exit handling consistent
> with 64-bit code.
> 

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>



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