Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NUMA aware allocation of transmit and receive buffers for e1000 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Wed, 18 May 2005 15:19:34 +0200 |
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Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> writes:
> On Tue, 17 May 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > >> > Because physically contiguous memory is usually better than virtually >> > contiguous memory? Any reason that physically contiguous memory will >> > break the driver? >> >> The issue is whether size can end up being too large for >> kmalloc() to satisfy, whereas vmalloc() would be able to >> handle it. > > Oww.. We need a NUMA aware vmalloc for this?
You can do that already by just changing process NUMA policy temporarily while calling vmalloc.
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