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Commit 946fbbc1 authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini Committed by Ingo Molnar
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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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJim 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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent ecb586bd
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