Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7]

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>]

--On Thursday, March 18, 2004 15:37:10 -0800 Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 18 March 2004 3:32 pm, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> I think the closest answer we have is that it's a grouping of cpus and
>> memory, where either may be NULL. 
> 
> Yep, that seems to make the most sense, but then part of me wants to
> drop the term node and never use it again :)

Hey, *I* wasn't the one who started splitting their h/w into wierdo pieces ;-)
Anyway, it's a damned sight shorter than "cpumemset".
 
>> 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.

M.