
The VirtIOBlockRequest structure is about 40 KB in size. This patch avoids zeroing every request by only initializing fields that are read. The other fields are either written to or may not be used at all. Oprofile shows about 10% of CPU samples in memset called by virtio_blk_alloc_request(). The workload is dd if=/dev/vda of=/dev/null iflag=direct bs=8k running concurrently 4 times. This patch makes memset disappear to the bottom of the profile. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Read the documentation in qemu-doc.html. Fabrice Bellard.
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