Re: Question on build_sched_domains

[Nick Piggin]

Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:28:34AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
>
> > Taking the example of 4 node system which are in the same
> > sched_domain_node_span(), I see that we end up allocating 16
> > times (when 4 would have sufficed?).
>
>
> Maybe this is it to avoid touching same memory from different nodes?

Yeah I think what's happening is that the sched groups structures
are not shared between nodes. (It's been a while since I looked at
this code, and it is a bit tricky to follow).

Aside, it should be using kmalloc_node now...

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