Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-common.h: optimise muldiv64 for x86_64 architecture

2015-01-09 Thread Peter Maydell
On 9 January 2015 at 16:08, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > I agree (after some digging) we are not sure we won't get that > overflow. Agree to drop the second patch. However I would retain the > first. Compiler can use it to optimize much easier. For instance if > compiler understand that the multiplica

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-common.h: optimise muldiv64 for x86_64 architecture

2015-01-09 Thread Frediano Ziglio
2015-01-09 15:52 GMT+00:00 Peter Maydell : > On 9 January 2015 at 15:41, Frediano Ziglio wrote: >> 2015-01-09 12:22 GMT+00:00 Peter Maydell : +/* Optimised x64 version. This assume that a*b/c fits in 64 bit */ >>> >>> This assumption isn't necessarily true, and this implementation >>> will du

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-common.h: optimise muldiv64 for x86_64 architecture

2015-01-09 Thread Peter Maydell
On 9 January 2015 at 15:41, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > 2015-01-09 12:22 GMT+00:00 Peter Maydell : >>> +/* Optimised x64 version. This assume that a*b/c fits in 64 bit */ >> >> This assumption isn't necessarily true, and this implementation >> will dump core on overflow. > Yes, I know, it was meant

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-common.h: optimise muldiv64 for x86_64 architecture

2015-01-09 Thread Frediano Ziglio
2015-01-09 12:22 GMT+00:00 Peter Maydell : > On 9 January 2015 at 11:25, Frediano Ziglio wrote: >> As this platform can do multiply/divide using 128 bit precision use >> these instructions to implement it. >> >> Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio >> --- >> include/qemu-common.h | 14 +- >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-common.h: optimise muldiv64 for x86_64 architecture

2015-01-09 Thread Peter Maydell
On 9 January 2015 at 11:25, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > As this platform can do multiply/divide using 128 bit precision use > these instructions to implement it. > > Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio > --- > include/qemu-common.h | 14 +- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-common.h: optimise muldiv64 for x86_64 architecture

2015-01-09 Thread Frediano Ziglio
2015-01-09 11:43 GMT+00:00 Paolo Bonzini : > > > On 09/01/2015 12:25, Frediano Ziglio wrote: >> /* compute with 96 bit intermediate result: (a*b)/c */ >> -#ifdef CONFIG_INT128 >> +#if defined(CONFIG_INT128) && !defined(__x86_64__) >> static inline uint64_t muldiv64(uint64_t a, uint32_t b, uint32_

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-common.h: optimise muldiv64 for x86_64 architecture

2015-01-09 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/01/2015 12:25, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > /* compute with 96 bit intermediate result: (a*b)/c */ > -#ifdef CONFIG_INT128 > +#if defined(CONFIG_INT128) && !defined(__x86_64__) > static inline uint64_t muldiv64(uint64_t a, uint32_t b, uint32_t c) > { > return (__int128)a * b / c; > } >

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-common.h: optimise muldiv64 for x86_64 architecture

2015-01-09 Thread Frediano Ziglio
As this platform can do multiply/divide using 128 bit precision use these instructions to implement it. Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio --- include/qemu-common.h | 14 +- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/qemu-common.h b/include/qemu-common.h index