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On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Instead of adding messy kmalloc_node()s everywhere run the 
> PCI driver probe on the node local to the device.
> Then the normal NUMA aware allocators do the right thing.

That depends on the architecture. Some do round robin allocs for periods 
of time during bootup. I think it is better to explicitly place control 
structures.