Hi, This RFC patch set tries to fix the issue of https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2137.
In this new version, we added patches that 1. Provide a fast path to direct access the host ram for some vector load/store instructions (e.g. unmasked vector unit-stride load/store instructions) and perform virtual address resolution once for the entire vector at beginning of helper function. (Thanks for Richard Henderson's suggestion) 2. Replace the group elements load/store TCG ops by the group element load/store flow in helper functions with some assumption (e.g. no masking, continuous memory load/store, the endian of host and guest architecture are the same). (Thanks for Richard Henderson's suggestion) 3. Try inline the vector load/store related functions that corresponding most of the execution time. This version can improve the performance of the test case provided in https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2137#note_1757501369 - QEMU user mode (vlen=512): from ~51.8 sec. to ~4.5 sec. - QEMU system mode (vlen=512): from ~125.6 sec to ~6.6 sec. Series based on riscv-to-apply.next branch (commit d82f37f). Changes from v2: - Drop v2 patches 1/4/5/6 - patch 2 - Provide direct access host ram flow for vector unit-stride ld/st - patch 3 - Provide direct access host ram flow for vector whole reg ld/st - patch 4 - Provide group element load/store flow for vector continuous ld/st - patch 5 - Extend v2 patch 3 to more vector ld/st functions Previous version: - v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240215192823.729209-1-max.c...@sifive.com/ - v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240531174504.281461-1-max.c...@sifive.com/ Max Chou (5): accel/tcg: Avoid unnecessary call overhead from qemu_plugin_vcpu_mem_cb target/riscv: rvv: Provide a fast path using direct access to host ram for unmasked unit-stride load/store target/riscv: rvv: Provide a fast path using direct access to host ram for unit-stride whole register load/store target/riscv: rvv: Provide group continuous ld/st flow for unit-stride ld/st instructions target/riscv: Inline unit-stride ld/st and corresponding functions for performance accel/tcg/ldst_common.c.inc | 8 +- target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvv.c.inc | 3 + target/riscv/vector_helper.c | 847 +++++++++++++++++++----- target/riscv/vector_internals.h | 48 ++ 4 files changed, 738 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1