From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7]
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:37:10 -0800
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 3:32 pm, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> I think the closest answer we have is that it's a grouping of cpus and
> memory, where either may be NULL. 

Yep, that seems to make the most sense, but then part of me wants to
drop the term node and never use it again :)

> I/O isn't directly associated with a node, though it should fit into the 
> topo infrastructure, to give distances from io buses to nodes (for which 
> I think we currently use cpumasks, which is probably wrong in retrospect, 
> but then life is tough and flawed ;-))

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)?

Thanks,
Jesse

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