Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 May 2003 07:38:09 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu |
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>> As just pointed out by dipankar the only issue is NUMA... >> so it has to be something more sophisticated than simply >> kmalloc()[smp_processor_id]; > > The proposed patch doesn't do anything about that either. > > + ptr = alloc_bootmem(PERCPU_POOL_SIZE * NR_CPUS); > > So yes, we need an api which could be extended to use node-affine memory at > some time in the future. I think we have that.
You can just call alloc_bootmem_node for each CPU instead. It doesn't work on i386 at the moment (well, it'll work but come out of node 0), but it probably ought to.
M.
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