Re: [PATCH] ACPI : Update platform device numa node based on _PXM method

[Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>]

Hi Rafael,


On 03/28/2017 04:43 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 09:54:30 AM Shanker Donthineni wrote:
>> The optional _PXM method evaluates to an integer that identifies the
>> proximity domain of a device object. This patch implements support for
>> ACPI _PXM method and updates the platform device numa node id using
>> acpi_get_node(), which provides the PXM to NUMA mapping information.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>
> What exactly is the motivation here?

We have a couple of platform devices some of them are attached to socket0 and others to a different socket. We would like to covert memory allocations in Qualcomm platform device drivers to a NUMA aware allocation to improve performance.


>> ---
>>  drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c | 5 ++++-
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c
>> index b4c1a6a..83d953e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c
>> @@ -119,11 +119,14 @@ struct platform_device *acpi_create_platform_device(struct acpi_device *adev,
>>  	if (IS_ERR(pdev))
>>  		dev_err(&adev->dev, "platform device creation failed: %ld\n",
>>  			PTR_ERR(pdev));
>> -	else
>> +	else {
>> +		set_dev_node(&pdev->dev, acpi_get_node(adev->handle));
>>  		dev_dbg(&adev->dev, "created platform device %s\n",
>>  			dev_name(&pdev->dev));
>> +	}
>>  
>>  	kfree(resources);
>> +
>>  	return pdev;
>>  }
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_create_platform_device);
>>

-- 
Shanker Donthineni
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