Hi. From [1] I'm lead to believe the only difference between the regular kmalloc() arguments and those of kmalloc_node() is the one specifying which node you want to allocate the memory on. Aside from the third argument, which seems to be related with NUMA (with which I never worked on kernel-context), I would suggest you to read [2]. If on the other hand you only want to allocate memory locally, maybe you should use kmalloc() or one of its variants [3]. Cheers. [1] - http://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-api/API-kmalloc-node.html [2] - http://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-api/API-kcalloc.html [3] - http://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-api/mm.html#id408507 --- João Eduardo Luís gpg key: 477C26E5 from pool.keyserver.eu On Jun 3, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Amirali Shambayati wrote: > > Hello all, > > I just want to allocate memory for a struct instantiation. Would anyone guide me what arguments I should pass to "kmalloc_node"? > Regards, > -- > Amirali Shambayati > Bachelor Student > Computer Engineering Department > Sharif University of Technology > Tehran, Iran > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
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