From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, bphilips@novell.com,
jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 RFC PATCH] e1000e: NUMA changes, add Node= parameter
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:36:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100922.203642.02274207.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100923032534.11274.77976.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:28:10 -0700
> Although a module parameter is not the preferred way for
> in-tree modules, this problem is not solvable in ethtool without
> mod params because of needing the information at probe time to
> control early allocations of memory. Ideally there would even be
> a way to control the node where the memory of the netdev struct
> would be allocated also.
Sorry, no.
Various folks are working on infrastructure such that the Numa node of
everything other than the netdev struct can be dynamically choosen.
I'm sure we can find a way to dynamically reallocate and re-attach the
netdev structure as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 3:28 [net-next-2.6 RFC PATCH] e1000e: NUMA changes, add Node= parameter Jeff Kirsher
2010-09-23 3:36 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-23 16:46 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2010-09-23 17:17 ` Ben Hutchings
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