linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Avoid allocating memory for temp cpumasks

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Message-ID: <yq17eo1gf5y.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 11:24:41 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Michael Kelley <mhkelley58@...il.com>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, longli@...rosoft.com,
        jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        mikelley@...rosoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Avoid allocating memory for temp cpumasks


Michael,

> Current code allocates 240 Kbytes (in typical configs) for each
> synthetic SCSI controller to use as temp cpumask variables.  Recode to
> avoid needing the temp cpumask variables and remove the memory
> allocation.

Applied to 4.18/scsi-queue. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering