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

Michael Mueller
2014-05-13T08:57:41Z

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