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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
