On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Michal Hocko wrote: > Besides that kmalloc_node shouldn't really have an implicit GFP_THISNODE > semantic right? At least I do not see anything like that documented > anywhere. Kmalloc_node does not support memory policies etc. Only kmalloc does. kmalloc_node is mostly used by subsystems that have determined the active nodes and want a targeted allocation on those nodes.