Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:58:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7]
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> >> 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)?
>
> 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.

That knowledge should be in the dma api thing shouldn't it? But in it's
current incarnation i don't see how that's possible.
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