Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Tue, 6 May 2003 00:34:12 -0700

"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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