On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, David Rientjes wrote: > NODEMASK_ALLOC(x, m) assumes x is a type of struct, which is unnecessary. > It's perfectly reasonable to use this macro to allocate a nodemask_t, > which is anonymous, either dynamically or on the stack depending on > NODES_SHIFT. There is currently only one user of NODEMASK_ALLOC which is NODEMASK_SCRATCH. Can we generalize the functionality here? The macro is basically choosing between a slab allocation or a stack allocation depending on the configured system size. NUMA_COND__ALLOC(<type>, <min numa nodes for not using stack>, <variablename>) or so? Its likely that one way want to allocate other structures on the stack that may get too big if large systems need to be supported. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-numa" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
