Re: [PATCH] NUMA aware allocation of transmit and receive buffers for e1000

Christoph Lameter [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 17 May 2005, David S. Miller wrote:

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Because physically contiguous memory is usually better than virtually 
contiguous memory? Any reason that physically contiguous memory will 
break the driver?

The issue is whether size can end up being too large for
kmalloc() to satisfy, whereas vmalloc() would be able to
handle it.

Oww.. We need a NUMA aware vmalloc for this?  

You can do that already by just changing process NUMA policy temporarily
while calling vmalloc.

-Andi