From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: make net and forcedeth to use kmalloc_node Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:28:50 -0700 Message-ID: <468ABF92.5030800@sun.com> References: <200706291330.37070.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <20070703115840.e05a0f47.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070703120430.4dcbba68@freepuppy.localdomain.hemminger.net> Reply-To: Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: In-reply-to: <20070703120430.4dcbba68@freepuppy.localdomain.hemminger.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:58:40 -0700 > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:30:36 -0700 >> Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >>> [PATCH 2/2] net: make net and forcedeth to use kmalloc_node >> Please copy netdev@vger.kernel.org on net patches. >> >> This patch modifies a net driver as well as the networking core. These >> subsytems have different maintainers who run different development trees. >> Consequently I must split your patch into two and change their titles and >> changelogs appropriately. >> >> Please do this for us in future, thanks. >> >> >>> diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c >>> index 42ba1c0..6d53b52 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c >>> +++ b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c >>> @@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ static int nv_alloc_rx(struct net_device *dev) >>> less_rx = np->last_rx.orig; >>> >>> while (np->put_rx.orig != less_rx) { >>> - struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz + NV_RX_ALLOC_PAD); >>> + struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb_node(np->rx_buf_sz + NV_RX_ALLOC_PAD, dev_to_node(&dev->dev)); >> If we're going to do this then it would probably make sense to change >> dev_alloc_skb_node() so that it takes a `struct net_device *' rather than a >> bare node-id. That's a call which the net guys will need to make, which is >> why we cc them on our emails. > > The driver should use netdev_alloc_skb. That routine is supposed to be overriden > on architecture's that need per node changes. do you mean: use dev_alloc_skb_node for numa arch. and other non numa will use macro or static inline to dev_alloc_skb YH