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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc
From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Roscher <ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:16 +0200, Stefan Roscher wrote:
> From: Anton Blanchard <antonb at au1.ibm.com>
> 
> To improve performance of driver ressource allocation,
> replace the vmalloc() call with kmalloc().

Just curious, but how big are these allocations?  Why was vmalloc() even
ever used if we know they'll be small?

-- Dave

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