Re: [PATCH v1] vhost: avoid large order allocations

Michael Mueller
2014-05-13T15:07:31Z

On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:29:58 +0200
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> wrote:

> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > 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
>
> Back in January 2013, you didn't seem to think it was a good idea:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/23/492
>

Hi Romain,

in that case I'd suggest that you submit your patch, ours will look pretty much the same!

Cheers
Michael