virtio: move allocation to virtqueue_pop/vring_pop

The return code of virtqueue_pop/vring_pop is unused except to check for
errors or 0.  We can thus easily move allocation inside the functions
and just return a pointer to the VirtQueueElement.

The advantage is that we will be able to allocate only the space that
is needed for the actual size of the s/g list instead of the full
VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE items.  Currently VirtQueueElement takes about 48K
of memory, and this kind of allocation puts a lot of stress on malloc.
By cutting the size by two or three orders of magnitude, malloc can
use much more efficient algorithms.

The patch is pretty large, but changes to each device are testable
more or less independently.  Splitting it would mostly add churn.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
index f5f25a95fc..5c3020331c 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
@@ -107,8 +107,10 @@ static void balloon_stats_poll_cb(void *opaque)
         return;
     }
 
-    virtqueue_push(s->svq, &s->stats_vq_elem, s->stats_vq_offset);
+    virtqueue_push(s->svq, s->stats_vq_elem, s->stats_vq_offset);
     virtio_notify(vdev, s->svq);
+    g_free(s->stats_vq_elem);
+    s->stats_vq_elem = NULL;
 }
 
 static void balloon_stats_get_all(Object *obj, struct Visitor *v,
@@ -206,14 +208,18 @@ static void balloon_stats_set_poll_interval(Object *obj, struct Visitor *v,
 static void virtio_balloon_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
 {
     VirtIOBalloon *s = VIRTIO_BALLOON(vdev);
-    VirtQueueElement elem;
+    VirtQueueElement *elem;
     MemoryRegionSection section;
 
-    while (virtqueue_pop(vq, &elem)) {
+    for (;;) {
         size_t offset = 0;
         uint32_t pfn;
+        elem = virtqueue_pop(vq, sizeof(VirtQueueElement));
+        if (!elem) {
+            return;
+        }
 
-        while (iov_to_buf(elem.out_sg, elem.out_num, offset, &pfn, 4) == 4) {
+        while (iov_to_buf(elem->out_sg, elem->out_num, offset, &pfn, 4) == 4) {
             ram_addr_t pa;
             ram_addr_t addr;
             int p = virtio_ldl_p(vdev, &pfn);
@@ -236,20 +242,22 @@ static void virtio_balloon_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
             memory_region_unref(section.mr);
         }
 
-        virtqueue_push(vq, &elem, offset);
+        virtqueue_push(vq, elem, offset);
         virtio_notify(vdev, vq);
+        g_free(elem);
     }
 }
 
 static void virtio_balloon_receive_stats(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
 {
     VirtIOBalloon *s = VIRTIO_BALLOON(vdev);
-    VirtQueueElement *elem = &s->stats_vq_elem;
+    VirtQueueElement *elem;
     VirtIOBalloonStat stat;
     size_t offset = 0;
     qemu_timeval tv;
 
-    if (!virtqueue_pop(vq, elem)) {
+    s->stats_vq_elem = elem = virtqueue_pop(vq, sizeof(VirtQueueElement));
+    if (!elem) {
         goto out;
     }