From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-ppc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
kvm list <kvm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Allocate vcpu struct using vmalloc
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:29:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B81270C.4060303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1266578673-32254-1-git-send-email-agraf-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
On 02/19/2010 01:24 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> We used to use get_free_pages to allocate our vcpu struct. Unfortunately
> that call failed on me several times after my machine had a big enough
> uptime, as memory became too fragmented by then.
>
> Fortunately, we don't need it to be page aligned any more! We can just
> vmalloc it and everything's great.
>
Applied, thanks.
We have the same problem in x86 (though never observed it in practice);
my plan there is to split the various structure so they take less than a
page.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2010-02-19 11:24 [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Allocate vcpu struct using vmalloc Alexander Graf
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2010-02-21 12:29 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-02-21 14:50 ` Alexander Graf
2010-02-21 15:08 ` Avi Kivity
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