int virtio_gpu_alloc_vbufs(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev)
 {
-       struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer *vbuf;
-       int i, size, count = 16;
-       void *ptr;
-
-       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vgdev->free_vbufs);
-       spin_lock_init(&vgdev->free_vbufs_lock);
-       count += virtqueue_get_vring_size(vgdev->ctrlq.vq);
-       count += virtqueue_get_vring_size(vgdev->cursorq.vq);
-       size = count * VBUFFER_SIZE;
-       DRM_INFO("virtio vbuffers: %d bufs, %zdB each, %dkB total.\n",
-                count, VBUFFER_SIZE, size / 1024);
-
-       vgdev->vbufs = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+       vgdev->vbufs = kmem_cache_create("virtio-gpu-vbufs",
+                                        VBUFFER_SIZE,
+                                        __alignof__(struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer),
+                                        0, NULL);
        if (!vgdev->vbufs)
                return -ENOMEM;
-
-       for (i = 0, ptr = vgdev->vbufs;
-            i < count;
-            i++, ptr += VBUFFER_SIZE) {
-               vbuf = ptr;
-               list_add(&vbuf->list, &vgdev->free_vbufs);
-       }
        return 0;
 }
 
 void virtio_gpu_free_vbufs(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev)
 {
-       struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer *vbuf;
-       int i, count = 0;
-
-       count += virtqueue_get_vring_size(vgdev->ctrlq.vq);
-       count += virtqueue_get_vring_size(vgdev->cursorq.vq);
-
-       spin_lock(&vgdev->free_vbufs_lock);
-       for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-               if (WARN_ON(list_empty(&vgdev->free_vbufs))) {
-                       spin_unlock(&vgdev->free_vbufs_lock);
-                       return;
-               }
-               vbuf = list_first_entry(&vgdev->free_vbufs,
-                                       struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer, list);
-               list_del(&vbuf->list);
-       }
-       spin_unlock(&vgdev->free_vbufs_lock);
-       kfree(vgdev->vbufs);
+       kmem_cache_destroy(vgdev->vbufs);
+       vgdev->vbufs = NULL;
 }
 
 static struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer*
 {
        struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer *vbuf;
 
-       spin_lock(&vgdev->free_vbufs_lock);
-       BUG_ON(list_empty(&vgdev->free_vbufs));
-       vbuf = list_first_entry(&vgdev->free_vbufs,
-                               struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer, list);
-       list_del(&vbuf->list);
-       spin_unlock(&vgdev->free_vbufs_lock);
+       vbuf = kmem_cache_alloc(vgdev->vbufs, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (IS_ERR(vbuf))
+               return ERR_CAST(vbuf);
        memset(vbuf, 0, VBUFFER_SIZE);
 
        BUG_ON(size > MAX_INLINE_CMD_SIZE);
        if (vbuf->resp_size > MAX_INLINE_RESP_SIZE)
                kfree(vbuf->resp_buf);
        kfree(vbuf->data_buf);
-       spin_lock(&vgdev->free_vbufs_lock);
-       list_add(&vbuf->list, &vgdev->free_vbufs);
-       spin_unlock(&vgdev->free_vbufs_lock);
+       kmem_cache_free(vgdev->vbufs, vbuf);
 }
 
 static void reclaim_vbufs(struct virtqueue *vq, struct list_head *reclaim_list)