netdev - Re: [PATCH v1] vhost: avoid large order allocations

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Message-ID: <20140513170731.181cc4e3@bee>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2014 17:07:31 +0200
From:	Michael Mueller <mimu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Romain Francoise <romain@...bokech.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, borntraeger@...ibm.com,
	cornelia.huck@...ibm.com, ddongch@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] vhost: avoid large order allocations

On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:29:58 +0200
Romain Francoise <romain@...bokech.com> wrote:

> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> 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

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