Re: [PATCH] mtip32xx: switch to vmalloc() to mitigate high order allocation failures

[Joe Perches]

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


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