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authorFeng Liu <feliu@nvidia.com>2023-05-16 09:54:46 -0400
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2023-06-27 10:47:08 -0400
commit4f0fc22534e3d81ebd470e899fed3c0dbb4aeb56 (patch)
tree83986a3e0a74b003fe6ec4ad44686dba1bfae541 /drivers/virtio
parent77b894f220cbd04301b3d941df8247106e67f8e4 (diff)
virtio_pci: Optimize virtio_pci_device structure size
Improve the size of the virtio_pci_device structure, which is commonly used to represent a virtio PCI device. A given virtio PCI device can either of legacy type or modern type, with the struct virtio_pci_legacy_device occupying 32 bytes and the struct virtio_pci_modern_device occupying 88 bytes. Make them a union, thereby save 32 bytes of memory as shown by the pahole tool. This improvement is particularly beneficial when dealing with numerous devices, as it helps conserve memory resources. Before the modification, pahole tool reported the following: struct virtio_pci_device { [...] struct virtio_pci_legacy_device ldev; /* 824 32 */ /* --- cacheline 13 boundary (832 bytes) was 24 bytes ago --- */ struct virtio_pci_modern_device mdev; /* 856 88 */ /* XXX last struct has 4 bytes of padding */ [...] /* size: 1056, cachelines: 17, members: 19 */ [...] }; After the modification, pahole tool reported the following: struct virtio_pci_device { [...] union { struct virtio_pci_legacy_device ldev; /* 824 32 */ struct virtio_pci_modern_device mdev; /* 824 88 */ }; /* 824 88 */ [...] /* size: 1024, cachelines: 16, members: 18 */ [...] }; Signed-off-by: Feng Liu <feliu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Message-Id: <20230516135446.16266-1-feliu@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h
index 23112d84218f..4b773bd7c58c 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ struct virtio_pci_vq_info {
struct virtio_pci_device {
struct virtio_device vdev;
struct pci_dev *pci_dev;
- struct virtio_pci_legacy_device ldev;
- struct virtio_pci_modern_device mdev;
-
+ union {
+ struct virtio_pci_legacy_device ldev;
+ struct virtio_pci_modern_device mdev;
+ };
bool is_legacy;
/* Where to read and clear interrupt */