From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759346AbaEMI5u (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2014 04:57:50 -0400 Received: from e06smtp17.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.113]:44223 "EHLO e06smtp17.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752503AbaEMI5r (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2014 04:57:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 10:57:41 +0200 From: Michael Mueller To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, ddongch@cn.ibm.com, mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] vhost: avoid large order allocations Message-ID: <20140513105741.0cc3c159@bee> In-Reply-To: <20140513084049.GE29442@redhat.com> References: <1399970133-46783-1-git-send-email-mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1399970133-46783-2-git-send-email-mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140513084049.GE29442@redhat.com> Organization: IBM X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14051308-0542-0000-0000-000008F7AF44 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 13 May 2014 11:40:49 +0300 "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > 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 Thanks for pointing us to: net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc() We'll try to adapt. Michael