On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:04:40PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > The question is, what should be the default pcibus_to_node if there is no
> > > > pxm info? Answer seems like -1 -- in which case dma_alloc_pages and e1000
> > > > driver has to be fixed.
> > >
> > > Why would they have to be fixed?
> >
> > alloc_pages_node (used by dma_alloc_pages) does not seem to do the check
> > though. I guess alloc_pages_node needs to be fixed then.
>
> Or just fix the caller. I will do that and change the default to
That was my thinking earlier too, but shouldn't we have uniformity in
behaviour between kmalloc_node and alloc_pages_node wrt nodeid handling?
IMHO it would be less confusing that way. alloc_pages_node is not that much
of a fastpath routine anyways...
Thanks,
Kiran
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