From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: Reimplementation of dynamic percpu memory allocator
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:11:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050117141117.4606b58a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050117182735.GA2322@impedimenta.in.ibm.com>
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > So... is it not possible to enhance vmalloc() for node-awareness, then
> > just use it?
> >
>
> Memory for block management (free lists, bufctl lists) is also resident
> in one block. A typical block in this allocator looks like this:
>
I still don't get it. It is possible to calculate the total size of the
block beforehand, yes? So why not simply vmalloc_numa() a block of that
size then populate it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-17 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-13 8:34 [patch] mm: Reimplementation of dynamic percpu memory allocator Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-01-13 8:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-14 15:05 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-01-14 9:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-17 18:27 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-01-17 22:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-01-18 5:59 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-01-14 2:24 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-14 9:58 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-01-14 10:41 ` Rusty Russell
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