Xen devel - Oct 2006 - RE: [Patch][RESEND] Add hardware CR8 acceleration for TPRaccessing

Any advice about the patch cr8-acceleration-3.patch?
Hi Keir, could you give some comments? Thanks!
 -- Dexuan

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[mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Cui, Dexuan
Sent: 2006年10月25日 11:12
To: Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-devel] [Patch][RESEND] Add hardware CR8 acceleration for
TPRaccessing

x64 Windows uses CR8 to access TPR very frequently. This patch enables
TPR shadow and allows mov-from/to-CR8 to access it directly; tests
indicates it can boost greatly the performance of x64 Windows 2003.

Thanks
 -- Dexuan

Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>

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Why set the TPR threshold to non-zero when current TPR is less than highest
IRR? The TPR is not gating injection of the interrupt, so why would we care
if its value becomes even smaller -- it''s already small enough?

Couldn''t we have
    if (highest_irr == -1) || (highest_irr > tpr)
        TPR_thresh=0
    else
        TPR_thresh = highest_irr>>4

 -- Keir

On 30/10/06 07:02, "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@intel.com> wrote:
> Any advice about the patch cr8-acceleration-3.patch?
> Hi Keir, could you give some comments? Thanks!
>  -- Dexuan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com
> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Cui, Dexuan
> Sent: 2006年10月25日 11:12
> To: Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: [Xen-devel] [Patch][RESEND] Add hardware CR8 acceleration for
> TPRaccessing
> 
> x64 Windows uses CR8 to access TPR very frequently. This patch enables
> TPR shadow and allows mov-from/to-CR8 to access it directly; tests
> indicates it can boost greatly the performance of x64 Windows 2003.
> 
> Thanks
>  -- Dexuan
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>
> 
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