[PATCH v6] numa: make node_to_cpumask_map() NUMA_NO_NODE aware

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Peter,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:42 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 03:25:44PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > I am sorry but I still do not understand why you consider this whack a
> > mole better then simply live with the fact that NUMA_NO_NODE is a
> > reality and that using the full cpu mask is a reasonable answer to that.
>
> Because it doesn't make physical sense. A device _cannot_ be local to
> all CPUs in a NUMA system.

While it cannot be local to all CPUs, it can be at a uniform (equal) distance
to each CPU node, can't it?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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