From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:52:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] SGI Altix cross partition functionality Message-Id: <20040823185239.B19424@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <20040616163339.GA27891@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040616163339.GA27891@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:10:08PM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote: > Although I agree that the nodemask_t patch is the proper solution to the > numnodes issue, I don't feel that waiting for its arrival should prevent > my continuing on with my XP[C|NET] patch. So I'm going to resubmit my > proposed patch with numnodes exported. This is with the understanding > that once the nodemask_t patch is accepted by the community (resulting > in the 'EXPORT_SYMBOL(numnodes);' line being deleted), I'll be glade to > rework the two XPC functions to use the 'for_each_node()' macro instead. Can you post a current snapshot of your work? As in the last mail numnodes is not the kind if 'interface' we'd like to export, especially with things like node hotplug in the pipe. p.s. and linux-ia64 is the wrong list for discussing that