Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware

[Matthew Dobson]

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:51:33PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> 
>>plain text document attachment (critical_mempools)
>>Add NUMA-awareness to the mempool code.  This involves several changes:
> 
> 
> This is horribly bloated.  Mempools should really just be a flag and 
> reserve count on a slab, as then the code would not be in hot paths.
> 
> 		-ben

Ummm...  ok?  But with only a simple flag, how do you know *which* mempool
you're trying to use?  What if you want to use a mempool for a non-slab
allocation?

-Matt
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