On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Instead of using one vmalloc() area (located in the node of the iptables
> process), we now allocate an area for each possible CPU, using NUMA policy
> (MPOL_PREFERRED) so that memory should be allocated in the CPU's node
> if possible.
>
> If the size of ipt_table is small enough (less than one page), we use
> kmalloc_node() instead of vmalloc(), to use less memory and less TLB entries)
> in small setups.
Maybe we better introduce vmalloc_node() instead of improvising this for
several subsystems? The e1000 driver has similar issues.
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