Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 01:15:53 EST


   From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
   Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 00:22:29 -0700

   "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Make kmalloc_per_cpu() merely a convenience macro, made up of existing
> non-percpu primitives.
   
   I think we're agreeing here.
   
As just pointed out by dipankar the only issue is NUMA...
so it has to be something more sophisticated than simply
kmalloc()[smp_processor_id];
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