On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:56 AM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni
<ganapatrao.kulka...@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulka...@cavium.com>
>
> This patch adds property "nid" to memory node to provide the memory range to
> numa node id mapping.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulka...@cavium.com>
>
> —
Adding the PPC guys as they’ve been doing NUMA on IBM Power Servers for years
with OF/DT. So we should really try and follow what they’ve done.
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..c4a94f2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
> +======================================================
> +numa id binding description
> +======================================================
> +
> +======================================================
> +1 - Introduction
> +======================================================
> +The device node property "nid(numa node id)" can be added to memory
> +device node to map the range of memory addresses as defined in property
> "reg".
> +The property "nid" maps the memory range to the numa node id, which is used
> to
> +find the local and remory pages on numa aware systems.
> +
> +======================================================
> +2 - nid property
> +======================================================
> +Numa node id, "nid" is required property of memory device node for
> +numa enabled platforms.
> +
> +|------------------------------------------------------|
> +|Property Type | Usage | Value Type | Definition |
> +|------------------------------------------------------|
> +| nid | R | <u32> | Numa Node id |
> +| | | | for this memory |
> +|------------------------------------------------------|
> +
> +========================================================
> +4 - Example memory nodes with numa node id mapping
> +========================================================
> +
> +Example 1 (2 memory nodes, each mapped to a numa node.):
> +
> + memory@00000000 {
> + device_type = "memory";
> + reg = <0x0 0x00000000 0x0 0x80000000>;
> + nid = <0x0>;
> + };
> +
> + memory@10000000000 {
> + device_type = "memory";
> + reg = <0x100 0x00000000 0x0 0x80000000>;
> + nid = <0x1>;
> + };
> +
> +Example 2 (multiple memory ranges in each memory node and mapped to numa
> node):
> +
> + memory@00000000 {
> + device_type = "memory";
> + reg = <0x0 0x00000000 0x0 0x80000000>,
> + <0x0 0x80000000 0x0 0x80000000>;
> + nid = <0x0>;
> + };
> +
> + memory@10000000000 {
> + device_type = "memory";
> + reg = <0x100 0x00000000 0x0 0x80000000>,
> + <0x100 0x80000000 0x0 0x80000000>;
> + nid = <0x1>;
> + };
> --
> 1.8.1.4
>
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