Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc

From: Dave Hansen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:12:51 -0700

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:16 +0200, Stefan Roscher wrote:
> From: Anton Blanchard <antonb at au1.ibm.com>
> 
> To improve performance of driver ressource allocation,
> replace the vmalloc() call with kmalloc().

Just curious, but how big are these allocations?  Why was vmalloc() even
ever used if we know they'll be small?

-- Dave