RE: [PATCH 32/37] xen/arm: unified entry to parse all NUMA data from device tree

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, Wei Chen wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: 2021年9月24日 11:17
> > To: Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx; julien@xxxxxxx;
> > Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/37] xen/arm: unified entry to parse all NUMA data
> > from device tree
> > 
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2021, Wei Chen wrote:
> > > In this API, we scan whole device tree to parse CPU node id, memory
> >           ^ function   ^ the whole
> > 
> > > node id and distance-map. Though early_scan_node will invoke has a
> > > handler to process memory nodes. If we want to parse memory node id
> > > in this handler, we have to embeded NUMA parse code in this handler.
> >                               ^ embed
> > 
> > > But we still need to scan whole device tree to find CPU NUMA id and
> > > distance-map. In this case, we include memory NUMA id parse in this
> > > API too. Another benefit is that we have a unique entry for device
> >   ^ function
> > 
> > > tree NUMA data parse.
> > 
> > Ah, that's the explanation I was asking for earlier!
> > 
> 
> The question about device_tree_get_meminfo?

Yes, it would be nice to reuse process_memory_node if we can, but I
understand if we cannot.