Re: [PATCH 1/1] network memory allocator.

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Aug 16 2006 - 05:03:21 EST


From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:00:31 +0400

> So I would like to know how to determine which node should be used for
> allocation. Changes of __get_user_pages() to alloc_pages_node() are
> trivial.

netdev_alloc_skb() knows the netdevice, and therefore you can
obtain the "struct device;" referenced inside of the netdev,
and therefore you can determine the node using the struct
device.

Christophe is working on adding support for this using existing
allocator.
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