Re: [RFC][PATCH] avoid creating empty nodes [0/2]

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-03-29T23:31:02Z

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:37:34 -0600
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> wrote:
> ACPI3.0 will have a way to describe these IO nodes. We have not done the
> design but when ACPI3.0 is available, we intend to make the kernel fully
> aware of IO-only nodes.
>

Then, we should set I/O nodes's pxm to pxm_online_map (I added in patch) in
acpi_numa_arch_fixup() in addition to cpus and memory. But there are no codes
to find available I/O nodes now.
Correct ?

BTW I heared ACPI3.0 can define pxm > 256. If we support it, entire codes should
be rewrote ;(.

-- Kame