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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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