From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Roscher <ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: fenkes@de.ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
OF-EWG <ewg@lists.openfabrics.org>,
LinuxPPC-Dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
raisch@de.ibm.com, alexschm@de.ibm.com,
stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:12:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240931572.29485.77.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904211716.45245.ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:16 +0200, Stefan Roscher wrote:
> From: Anton Blanchard <antonb at au1.ibm.com>
>
> To improve performance of driver ressource allocation,
> replace the vmalloc() call with kmalloc().
Just curious, but how big are these allocations? Why was vmalloc() even
ever used if we know they'll be small?
-- Dave
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Roscher <ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: LinuxPPC-Dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
OF-EWG <ewg@lists.openfabrics.org>,
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
fenkes@de.ibm.com, raisch@de.ibm.com, alexschm@de.ibm.com,
stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com, hnguyen@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:12:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240931572.29485.77.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904211716.45245.ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:16 +0200, Stefan Roscher wrote:
> From: Anton Blanchard <antonb at au1.ibm.com>
>
> To improve performance of driver ressource allocation,
> replace the vmalloc() call with kmalloc().
Just curious, but how big are these allocations? Why was vmalloc() even
ever used if we know they'll be small?
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-21 15:16 [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc Stefan Roscher
2009-04-21 15:16 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-21 17:34 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-21 17:34 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-22 9:11 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-22 14:02 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-22 14:02 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-22 14:10 ` michael
2009-04-22 16:00 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-22 16:12 ` michael
2009-04-28 13:07 ` [ewg] " Alexander Schmidt
2009-04-28 14:01 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-28 14:01 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-28 14:13 ` Alexander Schmidt
2009-04-28 14:13 ` Alexander Schmidt
2009-04-28 15:12 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2009-04-28 15:12 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-28 16:02 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-28 16:02 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-28 16:45 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-28 16:45 ` Roland Dreier
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