On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:29:58 +0200
Romain Francoise [off-list ref] wrote:

"Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Please dont' do this, extra indirection hurts performance.
Instead, please change vhost_net_open and scsi to allocate the whole
structure with vmalloc if kmalloc fails, along the lines of
74d332c13b2148ae934ea94dac1745ae92efe8e5

Back in January 2013, you didn't seem to think it was a good idea:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/23/492

Hi Romain,

in that case I'd suggest that you submit your patch, ours will look pretty much the same!

Cheers
Michael