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SubjectRe: [PATCH] change CONFIG_NUMA description
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>> CONFIG_NUMA description talk about a bit old thing.
>> So, following changes are better.
>>
>> o CONFIG_NUMA is no longer EXPERIMENTAL o Opteron is not the only
>> processor of NUMA topology on x86_64 no longer, but also Intel
>> Core7i has it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/Kconfig | 7 +++----
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> applied to tip/x86/doc, thanks! I've updated a few other details as
> well, see the final commit below.
>
> Ingo
>
> ------------->
> From fd51b2d7d5df932767b89e00d0871a38a2c53e74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 02:27:19 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: update CONFIG_NUMA description
>
> Impact: clarify/update CONFIG_NUMA text
>
> CONFIG_NUMA description talk about a bit old thing.
> So, following changes are better.
>
> o CONFIG_NUMA is no longer EXPERIMENTAL
>
> o Opteron is not the only processor of NUMA topology on x86_64 no longer,
> but also Intel Core7i has it.
>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++------
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 350bee1..38ae04b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -951,22 +951,26 @@ config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
>
> # Common NUMA Features
> config NUMA
> - bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> + bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
> depends on SMP
> depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL)
> default n if X86_PC
> default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP)
> help
> Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support.
> +
> The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
> local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
> NUMA awareness to the kernel.
>
> - For 32-bit this is currently highly experimental and should be only
> - used for kernel development. It might also cause boot failures.
> - For 64-bit this is recommended on all multiprocessor Opteron systems.
> - If the system is EM64T, you should say N unless your system is
> - EM64T NUMA.
> + For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core 7i
> + (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA.
> +
> + For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms
> + that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you
> + boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform.
> +
> + Otherwise, you should say N.
>
> comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI"
> depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI)

Core i7, not Core 7i.

-- Chris


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