Re: [PATCH 1/4] try parent numa_node at first before using default

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Greg KH wrote:

> > @@ -547,6 +547,8 @@ static void klist_children_put(struct klist_node *n)
> >  
> >  void device_initialize(struct device *dev)
> >  {
> > +	int node;
> > +
> >  	kobj_set_kset_s(dev, devices_subsys);
> >  	kobject_init(&dev->kobj);
> >  	klist_init(&dev->klist_children, klist_children_get,
> > @@ -557,7 +559,9 @@ void device_initialize(struct device *dev)
> >  	spin_lock_init(&dev->devres_lock);
> >  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->devres_head);
> >  	device_init_wakeup(dev, 0);
> > -	set_dev_node(dev, -1);
> > +
> > +	node = dev->parent ? dev_to_node(dev->parent) : -1;
> > +	set_dev_node(dev, node);
> >  }
> 
> What is this going to give us?
> 
> Doesn't it mean that all devices will end up on the same node?

It means that the node for the device is the same as the parent device.
F.e. if the parent device is a bus that is connected to node 4 then all 
the devices hooked up to the bus are allocated on that node.
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