Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 May 2003 00:34:12 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu |
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"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote: > > As just pointed out by dipankar the only issue is NUMA... > so it has to be something more sophisticated than simply > kmalloc()[smp_processor_id];
The proposed patch doesn't do anything about that either.
+ ptr = alloc_bootmem(PERCPU_POOL_SIZE * NR_CPUS);
So yes, we need an api which could be extended to use node-affine memory at some time in the future. I think we have that.
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