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

[Andrew Morton]

Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity, is bubble 
>  sort unpopular or having two sort functions in the kernel source tree an
>  issue here?

yes and yes ;)

>  > 
>  > Why cannot the code simply call vmalloc rather than copying its internals?
> 
>  Node local allocation. vmalloc cannot ensure pages for correspomding
>  cpus are node local.  Also, design goal was to allocate pages for 
>  cpu_possible cpus only.  With plain vmalloc, we will end up allocating 
>  pages for NR_CPUS.

So...  is it not possible to enhance vmalloc() for node-awareness, then
just use it?

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