netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/5] ixgbe: Allocate driver resources per NUMA node

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:34:00 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/5] ixgbe: Allocate driver resources per
	NUMA node

> >The problem of doing this is that the node might be full or have
> >no memory and k*alloc_node will fail then.
> >
> >So you would need a fallback to be reliable (we probably should have a
> >generic utility function for this somewhere, but we don't currently)
> 
> So you'd rather see us call kzalloc() if kzalloc_node() fails, instead of immediately failing out to err_out?

Yes.

After all it's only an optimization to place memory, it's not
a functional requirement.

-Andi

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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