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[RFC,2/3] qemux86-64: build for x86-64-v3 (2013 Haswell and later) rather than Core 2 from 2006

Message ID 20221226084455.2835751-2-alex@linutronix.de
State Accepted, archived
Commit 6f2af1e5d1537b4d31e14946292bf58f0fd76fc9
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Series [RFC,1/3] conf/machine/include: add x86-64-v3 tunes (AVX, AVX2, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, LZCNT, MOVBE, XSAVE) | expand

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Alexander Kanavin Dec. 26, 2022, 8:44 a.m. UTC
This allows us to
- test those more recent instruction sets (AVX, AVX2, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, LZCNT, MOVBE, XSAVE)
- benefit from improved performance across the stack both in kvm-driven system emulation and when running
on real silicon.
For example, glibc:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-strcasecmp-AVX2-EVEX

v4 level is adding AVX-512, which is far less established, particularly Intel has famously backtracked
from supporting it in Alder Lake/Raport Lake client CPUs and AMD has only implemented it in very recent Zen4 products:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-11-x86-64-Feature-Levels

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
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 meta/conf/machine/include/x86/qemuboot-x86.inc | 4 ++--
 meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf              | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/x86/qemuboot-x86.inc b/meta/conf/machine/include/x86/qemuboot-x86.inc
index 3953679366..31db1b2a61 100644
--- a/meta/conf/machine/include/x86/qemuboot-x86.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/x86/qemuboot-x86.inc
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@  QB_SMP = "-smp 4"
 QB_CPU:x86 = "-cpu IvyBridge -machine q35,i8042=off"
 QB_CPU_KVM:x86 = "-cpu IvyBridge -machine q35,i8042=off"
 
-QB_CPU:x86-64 = "-cpu IvyBridge -machine q35,i8042=off"
-QB_CPU_KVM:x86-64 = "-cpu IvyBridge -machine q35,i8042=off"
+QB_CPU:x86-64 = "-cpu Skylake-Client -machine q35,i8042=off"
+QB_CPU_KVM:x86-64 = "-cpu Skylake-Client -machine q35,i8042=off"
 
 QB_AUDIO_DRV = "alsa"
 QB_AUDIO_OPT = "-device AC97"
diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf b/meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf
index 8640867911..ba8ed21707 100644
--- a/meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@  PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles2 ?= "mesa"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libgles3 ?= "mesa"
 
 require conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
-DEFAULTTUNE ?= "core2-64"
-require conf/machine/include/x86/tune-corei7.inc
+DEFAULTTUNE ?= "x86-64-v3-64"
+require conf/machine/include/x86/tune-x86-64-v3.inc
 require conf/machine/include/x86/qemuboot-x86.inc
 
 UBOOT_MACHINE ?= "qemu-x86_64_defconfig"