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

From: Michael Mueller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 17:07:31 +0200

On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:29:58 +0200
Romain Francoise <[email-masked]> wrote:

> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]> 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