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From: | Jaya Tiwari |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] socket: Allocating Large sized arrays to heap |
Date: | Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:57:30 +0530 |
On 18/03/2016 12:24, Pooja Dhannawat wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> 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 <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
> > <mailto:address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>> 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));
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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