[dpdk-dev] [RFC 07/10] vhost: avoid useless VhostUserMemory copy

[Maxime Coquelin]

The VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE payload is copied when handled,
whereas it could directly be referenced.

This is not very important, but next, we'll need to update the
payload and send it back to Qemu.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
index 1c75d8015..0861feff1 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ static int
 vhost_user_set_mem_table(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *pmsg)
 {
 	struct virtio_net *dev = *pdev;
-	struct VhostUserMemory memory = pmsg->payload.memory;
+	struct VhostUserMemory *memory = &pmsg->payload.memory;
 	struct rte_vhost_mem_region *reg;
 	void *mmap_addr;
 	uint64_t mmap_size;
@@ -797,17 +797,17 @@ vhost_user_set_mem_table(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *pmsg)
 	int populate;
 	int fd;
 
-	if (memory.nregions > VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS) {
+	if (memory->nregions > VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_CONFIG,
-			"too many memory regions (%u)\n", memory.nregions);
+			"too many memory regions (%u)\n", memory->nregions);
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	if (dev->mem && !vhost_memory_changed(&memory, dev->mem)) {
+	if (dev->mem && !vhost_memory_changed(memory, dev->mem)) {
 		RTE_LOG(INFO, VHOST_CONFIG,
 			"(%d) memory regions not changed\n", dev->vid);
 
-		for (i = 0; i < memory.nregions; i++)
+		for (i = 0; i < memory->nregions; i++)
 			close(pmsg->fds[i]);
 
 		return 0;
@@ -839,25 +839,25 @@ vhost_user_set_mem_table(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *pmsg)
 	}
 
 	dev->mem = rte_zmalloc("vhost-mem-table", sizeof(struct rte_vhost_memory) +
-		sizeof(struct rte_vhost_mem_region) * memory.nregions, 0);
+		sizeof(struct rte_vhost_mem_region) * memory->nregions, 0);
 	if (dev->mem == NULL) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_CONFIG,
 			"(%d) failed to allocate memory for dev->mem\n",
 			dev->vid);
 		return -1;
 	}
-	dev->mem->nregions = memory.nregions;
+	dev->mem->nregions = memory->nregions;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < memory.nregions; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < memory->nregions; i++) {
 		fd  = pmsg->fds[i];
 		reg = &dev->mem->regions[i];
 
-		reg->guest_phys_addr = memory.regions[i].guest_phys_addr;
-		reg->guest_user_addr = memory.regions[i].userspace_addr;
-		reg->size            = memory.regions[i].memory_size;
+		reg->guest_phys_addr = memory->regions[i].guest_phys_addr;
+		reg->guest_user_addr = memory->regions[i].userspace_addr;
+		reg->size            = memory->regions[i].memory_size;
 		reg->fd              = fd;
 
-		mmap_offset = memory.regions[i].mmap_offset;
+		mmap_offset = memory->regions[i].mmap_offset;
 
 		/* Check for memory_size + mmap_offset overflow */
 		if (mmap_offset >= -reg->size) {
-- 
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