On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 04:03:42PM +0300, Jan Dakinevich wrote: > The size of mlx4_ib_device became too large to be allocated as whole contigous > block of memory. Currently it takes about 55K. On architecture with 4K page it > means 3rd order. > > This patch series makes an attempt to split mlx4_ib_device into several parts > and allocate them with less expensive kvzalloc Why split it up? Any reason not to just allocate the whole thing with kvzalloc? Jason