From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 1 23:50:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6467E37B7B1 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA32623; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:46:21 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:49:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Arun Sharma Cc: Mark Blackman , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NUMA (Was Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware) In-Reply-To: <20000601224859.A17524@sharmas.dhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message