Re: [PATCH v6] numa: make node_to_cpumask_map() NUMA_NO_NODE aware

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Sep 25 2019 - 12:32:56 EST


On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 03:25:44PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> I am sorry but I still do not understand why you consider this whack a
> mole better then simply live with the fact that NUMA_NO_NODE is a
> reality and that using the full cpu mask is a reasonable answer to that.

Because it doesn't make physical sense. A device _cannot_ be local to
all CPUs in a NUMA system.