Re: [PATCH] ACPI : Update platform device numa node based on _PXM method

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Shanker Donthineni
<shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
>
> On 03/28/2017 05:15 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 05:14:13 PM Shanker Donthineni wrote:
>>> Hi Rafael,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/28/2017 04:43 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 09:54:30 AM Shanker Donthineni wrote:
>>>>> The optional _PXM method evaluates to an integer that identifies the
>>>>> proximity domain of a device object. This patch implements support for
>>>>> ACPI _PXM method and updates the platform device numa node id using
>>>>> acpi_get_node(), which provides the PXM to NUMA mapping information.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> What exactly is the motivation here?
>>> We have a couple of platform devices some of them are attached
>>> to socket0 and others to a different socket. We would like to covert
>>> memory allocations in Qualcomm platform device drivers to a NUMA
>>> aware allocation to improve performance.
>> All of the above information should be there in the patch changelog and
>> presumably the patch should be a part of a larger series so the way this
>> feature is going to be used is more clear.
>
> Sorry, I didn't quite get what's larger series? I'm happy to include above information in
> commit/changelog text. We are trying to allocate memory using standard  function
> devm_kmalloc() but the function is always allocating memory from NUMA node 0.
> The inline function dev_to_node(dev) always returns -1 on our system even though
> we are setting PXM method in ACPI DSDT to non-zero value.

OK

So please add the above to the patch changelog too.

Thanks,
Rafael