[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] target/ppc: improve performance of large BAT invalidations

[Artyom Tarasenko]

Performing a complete flush is ~ 100 times faster than flushing
256MiB of 4KiB pages. Set a limit of 1024 pages and perform a complete
flush afterwards.

This patch significantly speeds up AIX 5.1 and NetBSD-ofppc.

Signed-off-by: Artyom Tarasenko <address@hidden>
---
 target/ppc/mmu_helper.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target/ppc/mmu_helper.c b/target/ppc/mmu_helper.c
index 4a6be4d..d7eed3a 100644
--- a/target/ppc/mmu_helper.c
+++ b/target/ppc/mmu_helper.c
@@ -1809,6 +1809,13 @@ static inline void do_invalidate_BAT(CPUPPCState *env, 
target_ulong BATu,
 
     base = BATu & ~0x0001FFFF;
     end = base + mask + 0x00020000;
+    if (((end - base) >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS) > 1024) {
+        /* Flushing 1024 4K pages is slower than a complete flush */
+        LOG_BATS("Flush all BATs\n");
+        tlb_flush(CPU(cs));
+        LOG_BATS("Flush done\n");
+        return;
+    }
     LOG_BATS("Flush BAT from " TARGET_FMT_lx " to " TARGET_FMT_lx " ("
              TARGET_FMT_lx ")\n", base, end, mask);
     for (page = base; page != end; page += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
-- 
2.7.2