Re: [PATCH] e1000: NUMA aware allocation of descriptors V2

Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> NUMA awareness for the e1000 driver. Allocate tx and rx descriptors
> on the node of the device.
> 
> It is safe to replace vmalloc by kmalloc node since only the descriptors
> are allocated in a NUMA aware way. These will not be so large that the
> use of vmalloc becomes necesssary.

Really?  That's probably OK with the default number of tx descriptors, but
that number can be made arbitrarily large with a module parameter.

Could you please work this with the e1000 developers?
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