From 21cf31c51a7aeff4270c9b30b37e019c536d54b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:36:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] hw/net/virtio-net: skip automatic zero-init of large arrays MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The 'virtio_net_receive_rcu' method has three arrays with VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE elements, which are apprixmately 32k in size used for copying data between guest and host. Skip the automatic zero-init of these arrays to eliminate the performance overhead in the I/O hot path. The three arrays will be selectively initialized as required when processing network buffers. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-id: 20250610123709.835102-22-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi --- hw/net/virtio-net.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c index 221252e00a..eb93607b8c 100644 --- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c +++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c @@ -1911,9 +1911,9 @@ static ssize_t virtio_net_receive_rcu(NetClientState *nc, const uint8_t *buf, VirtIONet *n = qemu_get_nic_opaque(nc); VirtIONetQueue *q; VirtIODevice *vdev = VIRTIO_DEVICE(n); - VirtQueueElement *elems[VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE]; - size_t lens[VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE]; - struct iovec mhdr_sg[VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE]; + QEMU_UNINITIALIZED VirtQueueElement *elems[VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE]; + QEMU_UNINITIALIZED size_t lens[VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE]; + QEMU_UNINITIALIZED struct iovec mhdr_sg[VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE]; struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash extra_hdr; unsigned mhdr_cnt = 0; size_t offset, i, guest_offset, j; -- 2.39.5