linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] cpumask: add alloc_cpumask_var

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Message-ID: <494940E0.704@sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:11:44 -0800
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] cpumask: add alloc_cpumask_var_node V2

Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 December 2008 14:49:37 Mike Travis wrote:
>> Add alloc_cpumask_var_node.  This will be needed in x86 code to
>> allocate the domain and old_domain cpumasks on the same node as
>> where the containing irq_cfg struct is allocated.
> 
> OK, this is understandable.  If you don't mind I'll split this patch
> into documentation and node patches separately.
> 
> Since kmalloc(size, gfp) == kmalloc_node(size, gfp, -1), I think
> we can change this to implement alloc_cpumask_var() in terms of
> alloc_cpumask_var_node(..., numa_node_id()).
> 

Cool, thanks!

Mike
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