target/ppc: improve performance of large BAT invalidations

Performing a complete flush is ~ 100 times faster than flushing
256MiB of 4KiB pages. Set a limit of 1024 pages and perform a complete
flush afterwards.

This patch significantly speeds up AIX 5.1 and NetBSD-ofppc.

Signed-off-by: Artyom Tarasenko <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <1555103178[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hervé Poussineau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[email protected]>

diff --git a/target/ppc/mmu_helper.c b/target/ppc/mmu_helper.c
index d226b3573940858cc982c97d96bdf0f9e70025c5..1dbc9acb75efe54ccf3c7e3a98ca8cb64a8c4ac1 100644 (file)
--- a/target/ppc/mmu_helper.c
+++ b/target/ppc/mmu_helper.c
@@ -1820,6 +1820,13 @@ static inline void do_invalidate_BAT(CPUPPCState *env, target_ulong BATu,
 
     base = BATu & ~0x0001FFFF;
     end = base + mask + 0x00020000;
+    if (((end - base) >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS) > 1024) {
+        /* Flushing 1024 4K pages is slower than a complete flush */
+        LOG_BATS("Flush all BATs\n");
+        tlb_flush(CPU(cs));
+        LOG_BATS("Flush done\n");
+        return;
+    }
     LOG_BATS("Flush BAT from " TARGET_FMT_lx " to " TARGET_FMT_lx " ("
              TARGET_FMT_lx ")\n", base, end, mask);
     for (page = base; page != end; page += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {