Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:06:26 -0800
From: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] SPARSEMEM: pfn_to_nid implementation
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:59:53PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Following this message are three patches:
> 
> kvaddr_to_nid-not-used-in-common-code: removes the unused interface
> kvaddr_to_nid().
> 
> pfn_to_pgdat-not-used-in-common-code: removes the unused interface
> pfn_to_pgdat().
> 
> sparse-provide-pfn_to_nid: provides pfn_to_nid() for SPARSEMEM.
> Note that this implmentation assumes the pfn has been validated
> prior to use.  The only intree user of this call does this.
> We perhaps need to make this part of the signature for this function.
> 
> Mike, how does this look to you?

I like the idea of getting rid of unused interfaces as well as getting
the node information from the page structs.  It works for me on powerpc.

-- 
Mike
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