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DateTue, 17 May 2005 21:27:48 -0700 (PDT)
FromChristoph Lameter <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] NUMA aware allocation of transmit and receive buffers for e1000
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?  
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