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From: Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	borntraeger@de.ibm.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com,
	ddongch@cn.ibm.com, mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] vhost: avoid large order allocations
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 10:57:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140513105741.0cc3c159@bee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140513084049.GE29442@redhat.com>

On Tue, 13 May 2014 11:40:49 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> Please dont' do this, extra indirection hurts performance.
> Instead, please change vhost_net_open and scsi to allocate the whole
> structure with vmalloc if kmalloc fails, along the lines of
> 74d332c13b2148ae934ea94dac1745ae92efe8e5

Thanks for pointing us to: net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()

We'll try to adapt.

Michael  

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-13  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-13  8:35 [PATCH v1] vhost: avoid large order allocations Michael Mueller
2014-05-13  8:35 ` Michael Mueller
2014-05-13  8:40   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-13  8:40     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-13  8:57     ` Michael Mueller [this message]
2014-05-13  8:57     ` Michael Mueller
2014-05-13 14:29     ` Romain Francoise
2014-05-13 14:29     ` Romain Francoise
2014-05-13 15:07       ` Michael Mueller
2014-05-13 15:07       ` Michael Mueller
2014-05-13 15:15       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-13 15:15         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-14  8:11         ` Michael Mueller
2014-05-14  8:11         ` Michael Mueller
2014-06-13 11:56         ` Michael Mueller
2014-06-13 11:56           ` Michael Mueller
2014-05-13  8:35 ` Michael Mueller
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2014-05-13  8:35 Michael Mueller

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