Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:58:10 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7] |
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> 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.
That knowledge should be in the dma api thing shouldn't it? But in it's current incarnation i don't see how that's possible. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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