Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/1] net/net: Allocating Large sized arrays to heap

[Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>]

could you explain why we need this change ?


On 03/12/2016 04:39 PM, Pooja Dhannawat wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Pooja Dhannawat <dhannawatpooja1@gmail.com>
> ---
>   net/net.c | 8 ++++++--
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
> index b0c832e..5399758 100644
> --- a/net/net.c
> +++ b/net/net.c
> @@ -709,16 +709,18 @@ ssize_t qemu_send_packet_raw(NetClientState *nc, const uint8_t *buf, int size)
>   static ssize_t nc_sendv_compat(NetClientState *nc, const struct iovec *iov,
>                                  int iovcnt, unsigned flags)
>   {
> -    uint8_t buf[NET_BUFSIZE];
> +    uint8_t *buf;
>       uint8_t *buffer;
>       size_t offset;
>
> +    buf = g_new(uint8_t, 1);
> +
>       if (iovcnt == 1) {
>           buffer = iov[0].iov_base;
>           offset = iov[0].iov_len;
>       } else {
>           buffer = buf;
> -        offset = iov_to_buf(iov, iovcnt, 0, buf, sizeof(buf));
> +        offset = iov_to_buf(iov, iovcnt, 0, (uint8_t *)buf, sizeof(uint8_t));
>       }
>
>       if (flags & QEMU_NET_PACKET_FLAG_RAW && nc->info->receive_raw) {
> @@ -726,6 +728,8 @@ static ssize_t nc_sendv_compat(NetClientState *nc, const struct iovec *iov,
>       } else {
forget to release 'buf'

>           return nc->info->receive(nc, buffer, offset);
>       }
> +
> +    g_free(buf);
>   }
>
>   ssize_t qemu_deliver_packet_iov(NetClientState *sender,
>

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Best regards.
Li Zhijian