Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:46:23 -0600 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] IB: decrease large contigous allocation |
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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
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