Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ACPI : Update platform device numa node based on _PXM method | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:15:09 +0200 |
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On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 05:14:13 PM Shanker Donthineni wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > > On 03/28/2017 04:43 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 09:54:30 AM Shanker Donthineni wrote: > >> The optional _PXM method evaluates to an integer that identifies the > >> proximity domain of a device object. This patch implements support for > >> ACPI _PXM method and updates the platform device numa node id using > >> acpi_get_node(), which provides the PXM to NUMA mapping information. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> > > What exactly is the motivation here? > > We have a couple of platform devices some of them are attached > to socket0 and others to a different socket. We would like to covert > memory allocations in Qualcomm platform device drivers to a NUMA > aware allocation to improve performance.
All of the above information should be there in the patch changelog and presumably the patch should be a part of a larger series so the way this feature is going to be used is more clear.
Thanks, Rafael
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