Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:55:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] mm/slab: unexport kmem_cache_alloc_node |
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I fully agree. Drivers will have to use that call in the future in order > > to properly place their control structures. The e1000 in your tree already > > does so and may be compiled as a module. Thus applying this patch will > > break mm. > > I don't see e1000 in 2.6.13-rc3-mm2 using it.
Hmmm. Ok. e1000 only uses kmalloc_node which is based on kmem_cache_alloc_node. However, kmalloc_node will likely become a macro like kmalloc.
Applying the patch would mean that modules would only be able to use kmalloc_node and not able to allocate node specific memory from one of the slab caches.
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