@@ -635,6 +635,53 @@ vext_ldst_us(void *vd, target_ulong base, CPURISCVState *env, uint32_t desc,
VSTART_CHECK_EARLY_EXIT(env);
+#if defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY) && !HOST_BIG_ENDIAN
+ /* For data sizes <= 64 bits and for LMUL=1 with VLEN=128 bits we get a
+ * better performance by doing a simple simulation of the load/store
+ * without the overhead of prodding the host RAM */
+ if ((nf == 1) && ((evl << log2_esz) <= 8 ||
+ ((vext_lmul(desc) == 0) && (simd_maxsz(desc) == 16)))) {
+
+ uint32_t evl_b = evl << log2_esz;
+
+ for (uint32_t j = env->vstart; j < evl_b;) {
+ addr = base + j;
+ if ((evl_b - j) >= 8) {
+ if (is_load)
+ lde_d_tlb(env, adjust_addr(env, addr), j, vd, ra);
+ else
+ ste_d_tlb(env, adjust_addr(env, addr), j, vd, ra);
+ j += 8;
+ }
+ else if ((evl_b - j) >= 4) {
+ if (is_load)
+ lde_w_tlb(env, adjust_addr(env, addr), j, vd, ra);
+ else
+ ste_w_tlb(env, adjust_addr(env, addr), j, vd, ra);
+ j += 4;
+ }
+ else if ((evl_b - j) >= 2) {
+ if (is_load)
+ lde_h_tlb(env, adjust_addr(env, addr), j, vd, ra);
+ else
+ ste_h_tlb(env, adjust_addr(env, addr), j, vd, ra);
+ j += 2;
+ }
+ else {
+ if (is_load)
+ lde_b_tlb(env, adjust_addr(env, addr), j, vd, ra);
+ else
+ ste_b_tlb(env, adjust_addr(env, addr), j, vd, ra);
+ j += 1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ env->vstart = 0;
+ vext_set_tail_elems_1s(evl, vd, desc, nf, esz, max_elems);
+ return;
+ }
+#endif
+
vext_cont_ldst_elements(&info, base, env->vreg, env->vstart, evl, desc,
log2_esz, false);
/* Probe the page(s). Exit with exception for any invalid page. */
This patch improves the performance of the emulation of the RVV unit-stride loads and stores in the following cases: - when the data being loaded/stored per iteration amounts to 8 bytes or less. - when the vector length is 16 bytes (VLEN=128) and there's no grouping of the vector registers (LMUL=1). The optimization consists of avoiding the overhead of probing the RAM of the host machine and doing a loop load/store on the input data grouped in chunks of as many bytes as possible (8,4,2,1 bytes). Co-authored-by: Helene CHELIN <helene.chelin@embecosm.com> Co-authored-by: Paolo Savini <paolo.savini@embecosm.com> Signed-off-by: Helene CHELIN <helene.chelin@embecosm.com> --- target/riscv/vector_helper.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)