Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 0/2] sheepdog: remove huge BSS object

[Jeff Cody]

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:07:19PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> block/sheepdog.o has a 4M static variable that is 90% of QEMU's whole .bss
> section.  Since it doesn't really have to be static, we can just use a
> heap allocated block.  We can actually make it smaller too. :)
> 
> Patch 1 is a related cleanup since we're touching that area of the code.
> 
> Paolo
> 
> v1->v2: free the data...
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (2):
>   sheepdog: cleanup repeated expression
>   sheepdog: remove huge BSS object
> 
>  block/sheepdog.c | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.0
> 

Thanks,

Applied to my block branch:

git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc block

-Jeff