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SubjectRe: [Lse-tech] [RFC][PATCH] Change pcibus_to_cpumask() to pcibus_to_node()
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On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:32 am, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> > ...
> > #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > int node; /* or nodemask_t if necessary */
> > #endif
> > ...
> >
> > to struct pci_bus instead? That would make the existing code paths a
> > little faster and avoid the need for a global array, which tends to lead
> > to TLB misses.
>
> I like that idea! Stick a nodemask_t in struct pci_bus, initialize it
> to NODE_MASK_ALL. If a particular arch wants to put something more
> accurate in there, then great, if not, we're just in the same boat we're
> in now.

Cool, sounds like that'll work well.

> I'm trying to keep the dependency of topology on what the pci_dev and
> pci_bus structs look like to a minimum. That's why I'd like to keep the
> topology function based on PCI bus numbers (or possibly struct pci_bus),
> not struct pci_dev. The pci_bus is what really has the node affinity
> anyway, and the device only has that affinity through the fact that it
> is physically plugged into a particular bus.

Sure, that make sense. And it's easy enough to get a pci_bus from a pci_dev
that we probably won't run into trouble.

Thanks,
Jesse
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