[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rcu: reduce half heap memory size by malloc_trim()

[Yang Zhong]

Since there are some issues in memory alloc/free machenism
in glibc for little chunk memory, if Qemu frequently
alloc/free little chunk memory, the glibc doesn't alloc
little chunk memory from free list of glibc and still
allocate from OS, which make the heap size bigger and bigger.

This patch introduce malloc_trim(), which will free heap memory.

Below are test results from smaps file.
55f0783e1000-55f07992a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0  [heap]
Size:              21796 kB
Rss:               14260 kB
Pss:               14260 kB

55cc5fadf000-55cc61008000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0  [heap]
Size:              21668 kB
Rss:                6940 kB
Pss:                6940 kB

Signed-off-by: Yang Zhong <address@hidden>
---
 util/rcu.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util/rcu.c b/util/rcu.c
index ca5a63e..8d491a6 100644
--- a/util/rcu.c
+++ b/util/rcu.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
  * IBM's contributions to this file may be relicensed under LGPLv2 or later.
  */
 
+#include <malloc.h>
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "qemu-common.h"
 #include "qemu/rcu.h"
@@ -272,6 +273,9 @@ static void *call_rcu_thread(void *opaque)
             node->func(node);
         }
         qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
+#ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
+        malloc_trim(0);
+#endif
     }
     abort();
 }
-- 
1.9.1