Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7] | | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:37:10 -0800 |
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 3:32 pm, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I think the closest answer we have is that it's a grouping of cpus and > memory, where either may be NULL.
Yep, that seems to make the most sense, but then part of me wants to drop the term node and never use it again :)
> I/O isn't directly associated with a node, though it should fit into the > topo infrastructure, to give distances from io buses to nodes (for which > I think we currently use cpumasks, which is probably wrong in retrospect, > but then life is tough and flawed ;-))
It's probably not too late to change this to pcibus_to_nodemask(pci_bus *), or pci_to_nodemask(pci_dev *), there aren't that many callers, are there (my grep is still running)?
Thanks, Jesse
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