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SubjectRe: [patch] mm: Reimplementation of dynamic percpu memory allocator
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity, is bubble
> sort unpopular or having two sort functions in the kernel source tree an
> issue here?

yes and yes ;)

> >
> > Why cannot the code simply call vmalloc rather than copying its internals?
>
> Node local allocation. vmalloc cannot ensure pages for correspomding
> cpus are node local. Also, design goal was to allocate pages for
> cpu_possible cpus only. With plain vmalloc, we will end up allocating
> pages for NR_CPUS.

So... is it not possible to enhance vmalloc() for node-awareness, then
just use it?

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