[Devel] [PATCH vz7] net/vhost: Replace kmalloc with kvmalloc for order>=3

Oleg Babin obabin at virtuozzo.com
Mon Feb 26 15:29:51 MSK 2018


Currently we allocate more than eight pages of memory in
vhost_net_set_ubuf_info() function and we do not need
them to be physically contiguous, so it is feasible to
replace a call to kmalloc() with a call to kvmalloc().

https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-81803
Signed-off-by: Oleg Babin <obabin at virtuozzo.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 1076a46..d397ceb 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ int vhost_net_set_ubuf_info(struct vhost_net *n)
 		zcopy = vhost_net_zcopy_mask & (0x1 << i);
 		if (!zcopy)
 			continue;
-		n->vqs[i].ubuf_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*n->vqs[i].ubuf_info) *
-					      UIO_MAXIOV, GFP_KERNEL);
+		n->vqs[i].ubuf_info = kvmalloc(sizeof(*n->vqs[i].ubuf_info) *
+					       UIO_MAXIOV, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if  (!n->vqs[i].ubuf_info)
 			goto err;
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.1



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