Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 May 2005 16:25:28 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] e1000: NUMA aware allocation of descriptors V2 |
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Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> wrote: > > 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.
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