Re: [Qemu-devel] [patches] Re: [PULL] RISC-V QEMU Port Submission

[Emilio G. Cota]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 13:09:11 +1300, Michael Clark wrote:
> BTW somewhat coincidentally, the binary translator I wrote; RV8, which is
> practicaly twice as fast as QEMU only supports privileged ISA v1.9.1 and I
> personally want to keep binary compatiblity with it.
(snip)
> - https://rv8.io/
> - https://rv8.io/bench
> - https://anarch128.org/~mclark/rv8-carrv.pdf
> - https://anarch128.org/~mclark/rv8-slides.pdf

What QEMU versions did you use for those comparisons? I wonder if
the recent indirect branch handling improvements were included in those
(this work was merged in 2.10 for aarch64). Also, 2.7 is quite a bit
faster than previous versions for user-mode due to the use of QHT,
although you probably used a later version.

BTW after the merge you might want to look into optimizing indirect
branches (and cross-page direct jumps in softmmu) for riscv in qemu.
See examples with
        $ git log -Stcg_gen_lookup_and_goto_ptr

Cheers,

                Emilio