Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 3 authors, 2016-08-02

Re: [PATCH v2 repost 4/7] virtio-balloon: speed up inflate/deflate process

From: Dave Hansen <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-27 16:05:35
Also in: kvm, lkml, qemu-devel

On 07/26/2016 06:23 PM, Liang Li wrote:
+	vb->pfn_limit = VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFNS_LIMIT;
+	vb->pfn_limit = min(vb->pfn_limit, get_max_pfn());
+	vb->bmap_len = ALIGN(vb->pfn_limit, BITS_PER_LONG) /
+		 BITS_PER_BYTE + 2 * sizeof(unsigned long);
+	hdr_len = sizeof(struct balloon_bmap_hdr);
+	vb->bmap_hdr = kzalloc(hdr_len + vb->bmap_len, GFP_KERNEL);
This ends up doing a 1MB kmalloc() right?  That seems a _bit_ big.  How
big was the pfn buffer before?

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