vhost/scsi: use vmalloc for order-10 allocation
authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:30:34 +0000 (09:30 +0300)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:55:46 +0000 (22:55 +0300)
As vhost scsi device struct is large, if the device is
created on a busy system, kzalloc() might fail, so this patch does a
fallback to vzalloc().

As vmalloc() adds overhead on data-path, add __GFP_REPEAT
to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed.

Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dan Aloni <alonid@stratoscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

No differences found