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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:49:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
Cc:        Mark Blackman <tmb@sophos.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NUMA (Was Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006012347280.2831-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000601224859.A17524@sharmas.dhs.org>

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> (a) malloc(9) needs to be rewritten to allocate memory on the local node.

I'd also like to see malloc have a device component as well so that allocating
memory for devices can be made more optimal for devices and their relative bus
locations- i.e., like mbuf loanout or public allocators for NICs so that
memory constraints for that NIC and bus interconnects.




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