Re: NUMA API for Linux

[Matthew Dobson]

Sounds good to me.  I named it page_to_nodenum() to match
page_to_zonenum() which I named to differentiate it from page_zone().  I
have no attachment to the names whatsoever, though.

-Matt

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 22:29, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Instead of looking up a page's node number by
> > page_zone(p)->zone_pgdat->node_id, you can get the same information much
> > more efficiently by doing some bit-twidling on page->flags.  Use
> > page_nodenum(struct page *) from include/linux/mm.h.
> 
> Never noticed that before - I'd prefer we renamed this to page_to_nid 
> before anyone starts using it ... fits with the naming convention of 
> everything else (pfn_to_nid, etc). Nobody uses it right now - I grepped 
> the whole tree.
> 
> M.
> 
> diff -aurpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude virgin/include/linux/mm.h name_nids/include/linux/mm.h
> --- virgin/include/linux/mm.h	Wed Mar 17 07:33:09 2004
> +++ name_nids/include/linux/mm.h	Thu Apr  8 22:27:24 2004
> @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static inline unsigned long page_zonenum
>  {
>  	return (page->flags >> NODEZONE_SHIFT) & (~(~0UL << ZONES_SHIFT));
>  }
> -static inline unsigned long page_nodenum(struct page *page)
> +static inline unsigned long page_to_nid(struct page *page)
>  {
>  	return (page->flags >> (NODEZONE_SHIFT + ZONES_SHIFT));
>  }
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 

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