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

[Martin J. Bligh]

--Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxx> wrote (on Thursday, March 18, 2004 15:59:42 -0800):

> On Thursday 18 March 2004 3:43 pm, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> > 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.
> 
> Right, we want local memory (or potentially remote memory) for DMA,
> but what about interrupt redirection?  Some chipsets don't support
> interrupt round robin, and just target interrupts at one CPU.  In that
> case (and probably the round robin case too), you want to know which
> CPU(s) to send the interrupt at.  Can't immediately think of other
> in-kernel uses though (administrators will of course want to be able
> to locate a given PCI device in a multirack system, but that's another
> subject--one that Martin Hicks posted on yesterday).

I think we need both ... maybe a cpumask and a zonelist as the destination
types.

M.

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