qtest: pre-buffer hex nibs

Instead of converting each byte one-at-a-time and then sending each byte
over the wire, use sprintf() to pre-compute all of the hex nibs into a
single buffer, then send the entire buffer all at once.

This gives a moderate speed boost to memread() and memwrite() functions.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1431021095-7558-2-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tests/libqtest.c b/tests/libqtest.c
index 055aad69e0..e5188e0327 100644
--- a/tests/libqtest.c
+++ b/tests/libqtest.c
@@ -730,13 +730,15 @@ void qtest_memwrite(QTestState *s, uint64_t addr, const void *data, size_t size)
 {
     const uint8_t *ptr = data;
     size_t i;
+    char *enc = g_malloc(2 * size + 1);
 
-    qtest_sendf(s, "write 0x%" PRIx64 " 0x%zx 0x", addr, size);
     for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
-        qtest_sendf(s, "%02x", ptr[i]);
+        sprintf(&enc[i * 2], "%02x", ptr[i]);
     }
-    qtest_sendf(s, "\n");
+
+    qtest_sendf(s, "write 0x%" PRIx64 " 0x%zx 0x%s\n", addr, size, enc);
     qtest_rsp(s, 0);
+    g_free(enc);
 }
 
 void qtest_memset(QTestState *s, uint64_t addr, uint8_t pattern, size_t size)