On 10/08/2014 02:57 PM, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 11:35 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>> But then how do I know which node I'm physically connected to?
>> The pci_dev maps to the bus which maps to a numa node.  The pci_dev's numa 
>> value
>> is copied directly from the bus (or busses depending on how deep it is).
>>
>> I'd argue (strongly) that the pci_dev's numa ID better be correct o/w that 
>> is a
>> FW bug (and a bad one at that these days).
>>
>> dev_to_node() should return the correct value.
> 
> I'm not saying that the dev_to_node() returns incorrect value. It will
> always return the closest numa node for the given device.

No that isn't correct.  dev_to_node() will return the node the device is
connected to.

> What we want to enforce is that the closest numa node is the node that
> the device is physically connected to. In case if the closest numa node
> is the remote node we don't want to use this accelerator.
> 

P.
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