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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:48 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...ica.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Robert Richter <rrichter@...ium.com>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/14] ACPI NUMA support for ARM64

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 01:31:07PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 2016/4/26 0:47, David Daney wrote:
> >On 04/25/2016 04:13 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> >>On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 06:40:25PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> >>>From: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
> >>>
> >>>Based on v16 of device-tree NUMA patch set for arm64 [1],this patch
> >>>set introduce the ACPI based configuration to provide NUMA
> >>>information.
> >>>
> >>>ACPI 5.1 already introduced NUMA support for ARM64, which can get the
> >>>NUMA domain information from SRAT and SLIT table, so parse those two
> >>>tables to get mappings from cpu/mem to numa node configuration and
> >>>system locality.
> >>
> >>Whilst I've queued the main NUMA series for arm64, I'd really like to
> >>see more movement on the generic header file cleanups that you posted
> >>separately:
> >>
> >>http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456358528-24213-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
> >>
> >
> >FWIW:  Those patches should still apply.  I am carrying them in my
> >development trees, and have not changed them in any way.

What's your plan for getting them merged?

> >>Given that this ACPI series already requires some significant cross-arch
> >>interaction (which is actually good!), perhaps extending the clean-up
> >>patches to encompass some of the ACPI bits might make sense, and we can
> >>get that queued as a pre-requisite.
> >
> >The cleanup patches you mention above are really independent of the ACPI
> >things.  I have applied them both before and after the ACPI patches, and
> >both seem to work.  With a quick perusal of the ACPI patches nothing
> >jumps out at me as being a candidate for inclusion in the header file
> >cleanup series.
> 
> I agree. My patch set is ACPI related enablement, cleanups and
> consolidations, it would be good to merge as a single patch set
> as it's self-contained.

Up to you. I just thought you might want to avoid having two sets of
cross-arch changes and the associated merging headaches that go with
that.

Will

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