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    KVM: x86 emulator: Avoid clearing the whole decode_cache · b5c9ff73
    Takuya Yoshikawa authored
    During tracing the emulator, we noticed that init_emulate_ctxt()
    sometimes took a bit longer time than we expected.
    
    This patch is for mitigating the problem by some degree.
    
    By looking into the function, we soon notice that it clears the whole
    decode_cache whose size is about 2.5K bytes now.  Furthermore, most of
    the bytes are taken for the two read_cache arrays, which are used only
    by a few instructions.
    
    Considering the fact that we are not assuming the cache arrays have
    been cleared when we store actual data, we do not need to clear the
    arrays: 2K bytes elimination.  In addition, we can avoid clearing the
    fetch_cache and regs arrays.
    
    This patch changes the initialization not to clear the arrays.
    
    On our 64-bit host, init_emulate_ctxt() becomes 0.3 to 0.5us faster with
    this patch applied.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
    Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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