Re: [patch] mm: Reimplementation of dynamic percpu memory allocator

[Andrew Morton]

Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  > So...  is it not possible to enhance vmalloc() for node-awareness, then
>  > just use it?
>  > 
> 
>  Memory for block management (free lists, bufctl lists) is also resident 
>  in one block.  A typical block in this allocator looks like this:
> 

I still don't get it.  It is possible to calculate the total size of the
block beforehand, yes?  So why not simply vmalloc_numa() a block of that
size then populate it?
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