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

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

"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