[Cbe-oss-dev] Spider DMA wrongness

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Tue Nov 7 16:53:49 EST 2006


 
Hi,

>  - First of all, not our fault, but alloc_etherdev doesn't (yet) have an
> alloc_etherdev_node() version thus we end up with a data structure on
> the wrong node, pretty bloody annoying. I'm not even talking about skb's
> on the wrong node here but purely the netdevice and priv datas

Since the stuff that calls the pci ->probe routines does a:

	if (node >= 0 && node_online(node))
		set_cpus_allowed(current, node_to_cpumask(node));

Wont we get memory on the right node?

Anton



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