From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hanjun.guo@linaro.org (Hanjun Guo) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:50:13 +0800 Subject: [RFC PATCH] dt:numa: adding numa node mapping for memory nodes. In-Reply-To: <541A01B7.8030601@mentor.com> References: <1410944189-3608-1-git-send-email-ganapatrao.kulkarni@caviumnetworks.com> <541A01B7.8030601@mentor.com> Message-ID: <544F4AB5.5070107@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 2014-9-18 5:48, Nathan Lynch wrote: > On 09/17/2014 03:56 AM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote: >> From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni >> >> This patch adds property "nid" to memory node to provide the memory range to >> numa node id mapping. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni >> >> --- >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) >> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt >> new file mode 100644 >> index 0000000..c4a94f2 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt >> @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ >> +====================================================== >> +numa id binding description >> +====================================================== >> + >> +====================================================== >> +1 - Introduction >> +====================================================== >> +The device node property "nid(numa node id)" can be added to memory >> +device node to map the range of memory addresses as defined in property "reg". >> +The property "nid" maps the memory range to the numa node id, which is used to >> +find the local and remory pages on numa aware systems. > > "Local" and "remote" memory are notions that relate to some other > resource -- typically a CPU, but also I/O resources on some systems. It > seems to me that a useful NUMA binding would at least specify a "nid" > property, or something like it, for both cpu and memory nodes. But this > document speaks only of memory nodes. Agreed. and more, I think I/O resources also need such property, it will have performance influence for the proximity domain of I/O devices too. Thanks Hanjun