On 01/02/16 07:42, Corneliu ZUZU wrote:
> The X86 domain structure already occupied PAGE_SIZE (4096).
>
> Looking @ the memory layout of the structure, we could see that
> overall most was occupied by (used the pahole tool on domain.o):
>  * sizeof(domain.arch) = sizeof(arch_domain) = 3328 bytes.
>  * sizeof(domain.arch.hvm_domain) = 2224 bytes.
>  * sizeof(domain.arch.hvm_domain.pl_time) = 1088 bytes.
> This patch attempts to free some space, by making the pl_time
> field in hvm_domain dynamically allocated.
> We xzalloc/xfree it @ hvm_domain_initialise/hvm_domain_destroy.
>
> After this change, the domain structure shrunk w/ 1152 bytes (>1K!).
>
> Signed-off-by: Corneliu ZUZU <cz...@bitdefender.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>

Thankyou for doing this - it is exactly the kind of change I had in mind.

~Andrew

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