From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:21:46 +0100

> 
> * Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >  struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
> >             unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> >  {
> > -   int node = dev->dev.parent ? dev_to_node(dev->dev.parent) : -1;
> > +   int node = dev_to_node(&dev->dev);
> 
> i think this is a fix for the networking folks. (Dave Cc:-ed)

It keeps getting NAK's because it's wrong.

The author of the patch hasn't convinced folks why this is really
necessary, and using the net_device embedded device struct is
definitely wrong here.  It doesn't contain the NUMA node information,
the physical device does, and that is what the parent it.
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