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Paolo Bonzini committed 09f037aa48f
KVM: MMU: speedup update_permission_bitmask
update_permission_bitmask currently does a 128-iteration loop to,
essentially, compute a constant array. Computing the 8 bits in parallel
reduces it to 16 iterations, and is enough to speed it up substantially
because many boolean operations in the inner loop become constants or
simplify noticeably.
Because update_permission_bitmask is actually the top item in the profile
for nested vmexits, this speeds up an L2->L1 vmexit by about ten thousand
clock cycles, or up to 30%:
before after
cpuid 35173 25954
vmcall 35122 27079
inl_from_pmtimer 52635 42675
inl_from_qemu 53604 44599
inl_from_kernel 38498 30798
outl_to_kernel 34508 28816
wr_tsc_adjust_msr 34185 26818
rd_tsc_adjust_msr 37409 27049
mmio-no-eventfd:pci-mem 50563 45276
mmio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-mem 34495 30823
mmio-datamatch-eventfd:pci-mem 35612 31071
portio-no-eventfd:pci-io 44925 40661
portio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-io 29708 27269
portio-datamatch-eventfd:pci-io 31135 27164
(I wrote a small C program to compare the tables for all values of CR0.WP,
CR4.SMAP and CR4.SMEP, and they match).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>