Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: small optimization for is_mtrr_mask calculation

From: linmiaohe
Date: Thu Mar 05 2020 - 21:23:04 EST


hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>On March 5, 2020 6:05:40 PM PST, linmiaohe <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Many thanks for suggestion. What do you mean is like this ?
>>
>> index = (msr - 0x200) >> 1;
>> is_mtrr_mask = msr & 1;
>>
>>Thanks again.
>
>You realize that the compiler will probably produce exactly the same code, right? As such, it is about making the code easy for the human reader.
>
>Even if it didn't, this code is as far from performance critical as one can possibly get.

Yep, it looks gain little. Thanks.