linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 10/18] nvmet-fcloop: allocate/free fcloop

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Message-ID: <984ea057-de15-472a-9be3-79594f6bfc00@flourine.local>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:58:35 +0100
From: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@...e.de>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@...nel.org>, 
	James Smart <james.smart@...adcom.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>, 
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>, Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/18] nvmet-fcloop: allocate/free fcloop_lsreq
 directly

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > +	tls_req = kmalloc(sizeof(*tls_req), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!tls_req)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> This cries out for kmem_cache_alloc() ...

Okay, will switch to this API. FWIW, in the same call path there are
more kmallocs.