On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:25:36PM -0800, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:53:23AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 06:06:48PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:56:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > 
> > > This will break the compile for !NUMA if someone ends up doing a bisect
> > > and lands here as a bisect point.
> > > 
> > > You introduce this nice wrapper..
> > 
> > The dev_to_node wrapper is not enough as we can't assign to (-1) for
> > the non-NUMA case.  So I added a second macro, set_dev_node for that.
> > 
> > The patch below compiles and works on numa and non-NUMA platforms.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> dev_to_node does not work as expected on x86_64 (and i386).  This is because
> node value returned by pcibus_to_node is initialized after a struct device
> is created with current x86_64 code.
> 
> We need the node value initialized before the call to pci_scan_bus_parented,
> as the generic devices are allocated and initialized
> off pci_scan_child_bus, which gets called from pci_scan_bus_parented
> The following patch does that using "pci_sysdata" introduced by the PCI
> domain patches in -mm.

A nice, that some non-cell folks actually care for this patch.  As far
as my x86_64 pci code knowledge is concerned that patch look fine to me.

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