KVM: emulate: speed up emulated moves
We can just blindly move all 16 bytes of ctxt->src's value to ctxt->dst.
write_register_operand will take care of writing only the lower bytes.
Avoiding a call to memcpy (the compiler optimizes it out) gains about
200 cycles on kvm-unit-tests for register-to-register moves, and makes
them about as fast as arithmetic instructions.
We could perhaps get a larger speedup by moving all instructions _except_
moves out of x86_emulate_insn, removing opcode_len, and replacing the
switch statement with an inlined em_mov.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
index 0e0151c..4324473 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
union {
unsigned long val;
u64 val64;
- char valptr[sizeof(unsigned long) + 2];
+ char valptr[sizeof(sse128_t)];
sse128_t vec_val;
u64 mm_val;
void *data;