On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 15:57 -0700, Sam Bradshaw wrote: > The mtip_port kmalloc() allocation is relatively high order, in > particular since the recent doubling of the size of the scatterlist > container. The allocation has been shown to fail during SRSI under > fragmented or low memory conditions. Switching to vmalloc() mitigates > the problem. Converted both mtip_port and driver_data allocations for > consistency.
It'd probably be better to use kmalloc and then only if it fails use vmalloc. See examples like net/sched/sch_hhf.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
