On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 16:40:39 +0000 Ankit Agrawal <ank...@nvidia.com> wrote:
> Had a discussion with RH folks, summary follows: > > 1. To align with the current spec description pointed by Jonathan, we first do > a separate object instance per GI node as suggested by Jonathan. i.e. > a acpi-generic-initiator would only link one node to the device. To > associate a set of nodes, those number of object instances should be > created. > 2. In parallel, we work to get the spec updated. After the update, we switch > to the current implementation to link a PCI device with a set of NUMA > nodes. > > Alex/Jonathan, does this sound fine? > Yes, as I understand Jonathan's comments, the acpi-generic-initiator object should currently define a single device:node relationship to match the ACPI definition. Separately a clarification of the spec could be pursued that could allow us to reinstate a node list option for the acpi-generic-initiator object. In the interim, a user can define multiple 1:1 objects to create the 1:N relationship that's ultimately required here. Thanks, Alex
