NUMA memory block size

[Olof Johansson]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Dave Hansen wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 22:50, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> How about using the bootmem_alloc() functions instead of the LMB ones?
> They're a bit more standard, and everyone else will realize what you're
> doing.  That isn't too early, is it?

I think it is. The array is built first thing in do_init_bootmem, so I
wouldn't expect bootmem stuff to be available yet.

> > I'll take it as a later todo to look at a better data structure for this,
> > to avoid wasting too much space (but keep lookups fast).
>
> There's not a whole lot else you can do.  In theory, each 16MB LMB could
> be going to any node.  Any tree-based approach is just going to make the
> worst-case more cache misses than the 1 that it is now.  I like wasting
> the space and keeping it dirt-simple.

Sure.


-Olof


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