From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>,
'QEMU Developers' <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: "'Andreas Färber'" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Do not use slow [*] expansion for GPIO creation
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:39:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55BB6C72.1080900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02f101d0cb8b$b1ab9890$1502c9b0$@samsung.com>
On 31/07/2015 14:23, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> Expansion of [*] suffix is very slow because index expansion is done using
> trial and error strategy, starting every time from zero and retrying with
> the next index until insertion succeeds. With large number of already added
> properties this process takes huge amount of time (O(n^2) complexity).
>
> Some architectures (like ARM) use very large amount of IRQ pins in interrupt
> controller models. This flaw makes machine startup extremely slow
> (~20 seconds for ARM64 with 32 CPUs. This patch decreases this time down to
> ~10 seconds.
>
> Also in qdev_init_gpio_out_named() memset() is now called only once for the
> whole array instead of per-cell cleaning
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>
> ---
> hw/core/qdev.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/core/qdev.c b/hw/core/qdev.c
> index b2f404a..1d15736 100644
> --- a/hw/core/qdev.c
> +++ b/hw/core/qdev.c
> @@ -417,17 +417,21 @@ void qdev_init_gpio_in_named(DeviceState *dev, qemu_irq_handler handler,
> {
> int i;
> NamedGPIOList *gpio_list = qdev_get_named_gpio_list(dev, name);
> - char *propname = g_strdup_printf("%s[*]", name ? name : "unnamed-gpio-in");
>
> assert(gpio_list->num_out == 0 || !name);
> gpio_list->in = qemu_extend_irqs(gpio_list->in, gpio_list->num_in, handler,
> dev, n);
>
> + if (!name) {
> + name = "unnamed-gpio-in";
> + }
> for (i = gpio_list->num_in; i < gpio_list->num_in + n; i++) {
> + gchar *propname = g_strdup_printf("%s[%u]", name, i);
> +
> object_property_add_child(OBJECT(dev), propname,
> OBJECT(gpio_list->in[i]), &error_abort);
> + g_free(propname);
> }
> - g_free(propname);
>
> gpio_list->num_in += n;
> }
> @@ -442,20 +446,25 @@ void qdev_init_gpio_out_named(DeviceState *dev, qemu_irq *pins,
> {
> int i;
> NamedGPIOList *gpio_list = qdev_get_named_gpio_list(dev, name);
> - char *propname = g_strdup_printf("%s[*]", name ? name : "unnamed-gpio-out");
>
> assert(gpio_list->num_in == 0 || !name);
> - gpio_list->num_out += n;
>
> + if (!name) {
> + name = "unnamed-gpio-out";
> + }
> + memset(pins, 0, sizeof(*pins) * n);
> for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
> - memset(&pins[i], 0, sizeof(*pins));
> + gchar *propname = g_strdup_printf("%s[%u]", name,
> + gpio_list->num_out + i);
> +
> object_property_add_link(OBJECT(dev), propname, TYPE_IRQ,
> (Object **)&pins[i],
> object_property_allow_set_link,
> OBJ_PROP_LINK_UNREF_ON_RELEASE,
> &error_abort);
> + g_free(propname);
> }
> - g_free(propname);
> + gpio_list->num_out += n;
> }
>
> void qdev_init_gpio_out(DeviceState *dev, qemu_irq *pins, int n)
>
Thanks, this looks good. I'm not the maintainer, but I've queued it
anyway locally so that it's not forgotten.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-31 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-31 12:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Do not use slow [*] expansion for GPIO creation Pavel Fedin
2015-07-31 12:26 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-09-06 18:53 ` Andreas Färber
2015-07-31 12:39 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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