Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 May 2003 19:41:35 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu |
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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:57:13AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > Paul Mackerras points out that we could get the numa-aware allocation > plus "one big alloc" properties by playing with page mappings: reserve > 1MB of virtual address, and map more pages as required. I didn't > think that we'd need that yet, though.
This is somewhat painful to do (though possible) on i386. The cost of task migration would increase at the very least.
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