Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:42:40 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | [PATCH for 2.6.23] i386: Mark NUMA support experimental |
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I did some testing and found quite a lot of problems (doesn't boot at all on non NUMA and misassigns cores on Opteron systems).
Mark it as experimental and warn against its use for now.
It's still default y for SUMMIT/NUMAQ because it'll presumably work on these systems.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
--- arch/i386/Kconfig | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -614,10 +614,14 @@ config X86_PAE # Common NUMA Features config NUMA - bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" - depends on SMP && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && ACPI) + bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on SMP && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL default n if X86_PC default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT) + help + NUMA support for i386. This is currently high experimental + and should be only used for kernel development. It might also + cause boot failures. comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" depends on X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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