Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/21] target-arm: switch to AREG0 free mode

[Peter Maydell]

On 2 September 2012 18:33, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> Add an explicit CPUState parameter instead of relying on AREG0
> and switch to AREG0 free mode.

My cheesy test harness for running a popular embedded benchmark
in system mode (x86-64 host, ARM guest) shows mostly slowdowns of
between 2 and 3% with this patch applied. I think that falls into
"not fantastic but acceptable for the cleanup".

-- PMM