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SubjectRe: [PATCH] e1000: NUMA aware allocation of descriptors V2
Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> wrote:
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> NUMA awareness for the e1000 driver. Allocate tx and rx descriptors
> on the node of the device.
>
> It is safe to replace vmalloc by kmalloc node since only the descriptors
> are allocated in a NUMA aware way. These will not be so large that the
> use of vmalloc becomes necesssary.

Really? That's probably OK with the default number of tx descriptors, but
that number can be made arbitrarily large with a module parameter.

Could you please work this with the e1000 developers?
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