On Tue, 17 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > NUMA awareness for the e1000 driver. Allocate transmit and receive buffers
> > on the node of the device.
>
> Hast thou any benchmarking results?
Yes, your honor. Just a second .... The patch has been around for a long
time.
No benchmarks results in my email archive. Would need to talk to some
folks tomorrow and maybe we would have to run some new
benchmarks.
> > - txdr->buffer_info = vmalloc(size);
> > + txdr->buffer_info = kmalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL, node);
>
> How come that this is safe to do
Because physically contiguous memory is usually better than virtually
contiguous memory? Any reason that physically contiguous memory will
break the driver?
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