From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2 2/2] ixgbe: Make descriptor ring allocations NUMA-aware Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:49:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20100203.194907.261892375.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100204001804.15798.98344.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100204001910.15798.50480.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43966 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756595Ab0BDDsx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 22:48:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100204001910.15798.50480.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:19:12 -0800 > From: PJ Waskiewicz > > This patch allocates the ring structures themselves on each > NUMA node along with the buffer_info structures. This way we > don't allocate the entire ring memory on a single node in one > big block, thus reducing NUMA node memory crosstalk. > > Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.