Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:43:17 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7] |
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--On Thursday, March 18, 2004 15:37:10 -0800 Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> wrote:
> 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 :)
Hey, *I* wasn't the one who started splitting their h/w into wierdo pieces ;-) Anyway, it's a damned sight shorter than "cpumemset".
>> 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)?
It probably shouldn't have anything to do with PCI directly either, so .... ;-) My former thought was that you might just want the most local memory for DMAing into.
M.
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