[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] tcg/x86_64: optimize register allocation order

[Aurelien Jarno]

The beginning of the register allocation order list on the TCG x86_64
target matches the list of clobbered registers. This means that when an
helper is called, there is almost always some registers to clobber.
    
The same way register %rsi and %rdi are at the top of the register
allocation order list, while they can't be used for load/store
operations. This means the data and/or address registers are very often
%rsi and %rdi, so a mov operation has to be inserted before and/or after
doing the load/store.
    
This patches changes to the allocation order to avoid those effects.
It results in a 8% gain speed in qemu-x86_64 to compress a bzip2 file,
and a 6% gain in qemu-system-mips64 to compile a small application.
    
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>

diff --git a/tcg/x86_64/tcg-target.c b/tcg/x86_64/tcg-target.c
index 92f0733..5378e85 100644
--- a/tcg/x86_64/tcg-target.c
+++ b/tcg/x86_64/tcg-target.c
@@ -44,22 +44,21 @@ static const char * const 
tcg_target_reg_names[TCG_TARGET_NB_REGS] = {
 #endif
 
 static const int tcg_target_reg_alloc_order[] = {
-    TCG_REG_RDI,
-    TCG_REG_RSI,
-    TCG_REG_RDX,
-    TCG_REG_RCX,
-    TCG_REG_R8,
-    TCG_REG_R9,
-    TCG_REG_RAX,
-    TCG_REG_R10,
-    TCG_REG_R11,
-
     TCG_REG_RBP,
     TCG_REG_RBX,
     TCG_REG_R12,
     TCG_REG_R13,
     TCG_REG_R14,
     TCG_REG_R15,
+    TCG_REG_R10,
+    TCG_REG_R11,
+    TCG_REG_R9,
+    TCG_REG_R8,
+    TCG_REG_RCX,
+    TCG_REG_RDX,
+    TCG_REG_RSI,
+    TCG_REG_RDI,
+    TCG_REG_RAX,
 };
 
 static const int tcg_target_call_iarg_regs[6] = {

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
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