Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 20/28] target-xtensa: implement windowed registers

[Richard Henderson]

On 05/04/2011 12:35 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Max Filippov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> See ISA, 4.7.1 for details.
>>
>> Physical registers and currently visible window are separate fields in
>> CPUEnv. Only current window is accessible to TCG. On operations that
>> change window base helpers copy current window to and from physical
>> registers.
> 
> I'm not sure how the register windows work, but maybe you could use
> the same trick used for Sparc. There is a pool of registers
> (env->regbase[]), a register window pointer (env->regwptr,
> cpu_regwptr) tracks which are the currently accessible ones. The
> advantage is to avoid copying (not entirely for Sparc due to the
> window overlap).

Sparc loses out on some TCG optimizations because of that, although
to be fair the most effective of these are still in Aurlien's trees.

That said, I still would not recommend a new port to follow suit.


r~