T10 PI is not a widely used feature. This has us only allocate the structs for it if the feature has been enabled. For a common small setup where you have 1 virtqueue and 128 commands per queue, this saves: 8MB = 32 bytes per sg * 2048 entries * 128 commands per vhost-scsi device. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c index 0cfa56d08450..776051577a5f 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c @@ -1648,12 +1648,14 @@ static int vhost_scsi_setup_vq_cmds(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, int max_cmds) goto out; } - tv_cmd->tvc_prot_sgl = kcalloc(VHOST_SCSI_PREALLOC_PROT_SGLS, - sizeof(struct scatterlist), - GFP_KERNEL); - if (!tv_cmd->tvc_prot_sgl) { - pr_err("Unable to allocate tv_cmd->tvc_prot_sgl\n"); - goto out; + if (vhost_has_feature(vq, VIRTIO_SCSI_F_T10_PI)) { + tv_cmd->tvc_prot_sgl = kcalloc(VHOST_SCSI_PREALLOC_PROT_SGLS, + sizeof(struct scatterlist), + GFP_KERNEL); + if (!tv_cmd->tvc_prot_sgl) { + pr_err("Unable to allocate tv_cmd->tvc_prot_sgl\n"); + goto out; + } } } return 0; -- 2.34.1