KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely()
vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() are large functions, and giving branch hints to the compiler can actually make a substantial cycle difference by keeping the fast path contiguous in memory. With this optimization, the retpoline-guest/retpoline-host case is about 50 cycles faster. Signed-off-by:Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-3-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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