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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NUMA aware allocation of transmit and receive buffers
 for e1000
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:03:43 -0700
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Christoph Lameter <christoph@graphe.net> wrote:
>
> NUMA awareness for the e1000 driver. Allocate transmit and receive buffers
> on the node of the device.

Hast thou any benchmarking results?

> -	txdr->buffer_info = vmalloc(size);
> +	txdr->buffer_info = kmalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL, node);

How come this is safe to do?