Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] socket: Allocating Large sized arrays to heap

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/03/2016 12:24, Pooja Dhannawat wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com
> <mailto:pbonzini@redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 17/03/2016 16:31, Pooja Dhannawat wrote:
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>     > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com <mailto:stefanha@gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:stefanha@gmail.com <mailto:stefanha@gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>     >     On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 09:29:58PM +0530, Pooja Dhannawat wrote:
>     >     > @@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ static void net_socket_send(void *opaque)
>     >     >          s->index = 0;
>     >     >          s->packet_len = 0;
>     >     >          s->nc.link_down = true;
>     >     > -        memset(s->buf, 0, sizeof(s->buf));
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>     >     This change is unrelated to allocating buf1 on the heap.  What is the
>     >     purpose of this line?
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>     > I moved buf from stack to Heap, used g_new(), but I got your point if we
>     > need to initialize it with 0 then I have to keep that one.
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>     > Other wise doing so it gets whatever garbage it has already.
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>     This is s->buf, not buf.  Also, the BiteSizedTasks page says "Make the
>     stack array smaller and allocate on the heap in the rare case that the
>     data does not fit in the small array".
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> So here, should I check with stack consumption(size of array) and if it
> is greater than accepted level, then only keep on heap?

If it is greater than the accepted level, the on-stack buffer is not
used and you allocate one that has the right size on the heap.

Paolo

> If no, Can you please help me with this one?
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>     Paolo
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