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authorAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>2013-08-06 14:48:38 +0100
committerIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>2013-08-08 12:03:16 +0100
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rombios/ata: Reading this status register has no relevant side effects
So taking two traps when one will do is pointless. This removes 1 of 13 VMExits on the int 0x13 hotpath. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
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-rw-r--r--tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c b/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c
index a3efc618e0..f5557477a5 100644
--- a/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c
+++ b/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c
@@ -2540,7 +2540,6 @@ static int await_ide(when_done,base,timeout)
Bit32u time=0,last=0;
Bit16u status;
Bit8u result;
- status = inb(base + ATA_CB_STAT); // for the times you're supposed to throw one away
for(;;) {
status = inb(base+ATA_CB_STAT);
time++;