From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPoIB: use kvzalloc to allocate an array of bucket
 pointers
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:19:53 +0300
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On Mon,  9 Jul 2018 16:51:03 +0300
Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com> wrote:

> This table by default takes 32KiB which is 3rd memory order.
> Meanwhile, this memory is not aimed for DMA operation and could be
> safely allocated by vmalloc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c index 26cde95..cb752df
> 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> @@ -1526,7 +1526,7 @@ static int ipoib_neigh_hash_init(struct
> ipoib_dev_priv *priv) return -ENOMEM;
>  	set_bit(IPOIB_STOP_NEIGH_GC, &priv->flags);
>  	size = roundup_pow_of_two(arp_tbl.gc_thresh3);
> -	buckets = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*buckets), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	buckets = kvcalloc(size, sizeof(*buckets), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buckets) {
>  		kfree(htbl);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@ static void neigh_hash_free_rcu(struct rcu_head
> *head) struct ipoib_neigh __rcu **buckets = htbl->buckets;
>  	struct ipoib_neigh_table *ntbl = htbl->ntbl;
>  
> -	kfree(buckets);
> +	kvfree(buckets);
>  	kfree(htbl);
>  	complete(&ntbl->deleted);
>  }

ping

-- 
Best regards
Jan Dakinevich