Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: clear only essential parts of VirtIOBlockReq on object allocation

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On 11/04/2009 07:41 PM, Saul Tamari wrote:
This patch reduces the size of memory being cleared on every virtio-blk IO.

On every virtio-blk IO passed to QEMU, virtio_blk_alloc_request()
allocates and clears (with qemu_mallocz()) a VirtIOBlockReq object.
The sizeof(VirtIOBlockReq) equals 41040 bytes on my x86-64 machine.
By moving the 'elem' variable to the end of VirtIOBlockReq and
clearing only upto the address of the 'elem.in_addr' field, the
memset() call now clears only 80 bytes.


Signed-off-by: Saul Tamari<st...@xxxxxxxxx>

Use the full email in signoffs.

@@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ static inline void virtio_identify_template(struct
virtio_blk_config *bc)
  typedef struct VirtIOBlockReq
  {
      VirtIOBlock *dev;
-    VirtQueueElement elem;
      struct virtio_blk_inhdr *in;
      struct virtio_blk_outhdr *out;
      struct virtio_scsi_inhdr *scsi;
      QEMUIOVector qiov;
      struct VirtIOBlockReq *next;
+    VirtQueueElement elem;
  } VirtIOBlockReq;

Needs a comment to indicate new members must be before 'elem' if they need to be cleared.

  static void virtio_blk_req_complete(VirtIOBlockReq *req, int status)
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ static void virtio_blk_flush_complete(void *opaque, int ret)

  static VirtIOBlockReq *virtio_blk_alloc_request(VirtIOBlock *s)
  {
-    VirtIOBlockReq *req = qemu_mallocz(sizeof(*req));
+    VirtIOBlockReq *req = qemu_malloc(sizeof(*req));
+    memset(req, 0, (size_t)&(((VirtIOBlockReq*)0)->elem.in_addr[0]));

Please use offsetof() instead of open-coding it.

Submit to qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx since this came from upstream.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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