On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 04:29:58PM +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 Hmm true, and Dave thought the structure's too large. I'll have to do some benchmarks to see what the effect of Michael's patch is, performance-wise. If it's too expensive I can pick up your patch, no need to repost. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html