linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: add kmalloc_array_node and kcalloc

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:16:19 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: add kmalloc_array_node and kcalloc_node

On Wed 27-09-17 04:03:01, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > > Introduce a combination of the two above cases to have a NUMA-node aware
> > > version of kmalloc_array() and kcalloc().
> >
> > Yes, this is helpful. I am just wondering why we cannot have
> > kmalloc_array to call kmalloc_array_node with the local node as a
> > parameter. Maybe some sort of an optimization?
> 
> Well the regular kmalloc without node is supposed to follow memory
> policies. An explicit mentioning of a node requires allocation from that
> node and will override memory allocation policies.

I see. Thanks for the clarification

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs