On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:55 PM Feng Liu <fe...@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> 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 <fe...@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
Thanks
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h | 7 ++++---
> 1 file 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 */
> --
> 2.37.1 (Apple Git-137.1)
>
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