Add a function named packet_new_nocopy for COLO.

Use the packet_new_nocopy instead of packet_new in the
filter-rewriter module. There will be one less memory
copy in the processing of each network packet.

Signed-off-by: Lei Rao <lei.rao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/net/colo.c b/net/colo.c
index ef00609848..3a3e6e89a0 100644
--- a/net/colo.c
+++ b/net/colo.c
@@ -157,19 +157,28 @@ void connection_destroy(void *opaque)
 
 Packet *packet_new(const void *data, int size, int vnet_hdr_len)
 {
-    Packet *pkt = g_slice_new(Packet);
+    Packet *pkt = g_slice_new0(Packet);
 
     pkt->data = g_memdup(data, size);
     pkt->size = size;
     pkt->creation_ms = qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_HOST);
     pkt->vnet_hdr_len = vnet_hdr_len;
-    pkt->tcp_seq = 0;
-    pkt->tcp_ack = 0;
-    pkt->seq_end = 0;
-    pkt->header_size = 0;
-    pkt->payload_size = 0;
-    pkt->offset = 0;
-    pkt->flags = 0;
+
+    return pkt;
+}
+
+/*
+ * packet_new_nocopy will not copy data, so the caller can't release
+ * the data. And it will be released in packet_destroy.
+ */
+Packet *packet_new_nocopy(void *data, int size, int vnet_hdr_len)
+{
+    Packet *pkt = g_slice_new0(Packet);
+
+    pkt->data = data;
+    pkt->size = size;
+    pkt->creation_ms = qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_HOST);
+    pkt->vnet_hdr_len = vnet_hdr_len;
 
     return pkt;
 }