Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:42:48 -0800 | | From | Yinghai Lu <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/8] net: use numa_node in net_devcice->dev instead of parent |
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On Tuesday 19 February 2008 03:41:10 am David Miller wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:21:46 +0100 > > > > > * Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> wrote: > > > > > struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev, > > > unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask) > > > { > > > - int node = dev->dev.parent ? dev_to_node(dev->dev.parent) : -1; > > > + int node = dev_to_node(&dev->dev); > > > > i think this is a fix for the networking folks. (Dave Cc:-ed) > > It keeps getting NAK's because it's wrong. > > The author of the patch hasn't convinced folks why this is really > necessary, and using the net_device embedded device struct is > definitely wrong here. It doesn't contain the NUMA node information, > the physical device does, and that is what the parent it.
can you check the 5/8? that will make sure every struct device get numa_node get assigned.
YH
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