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SubjectRe: Comments on UV tlb flushing
Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>> Cliff Wickman wrote:
>>
>>> I think that the Linux distributions are not going to build a special
>>> UV kernel, are they? So every distro would have to be prompted to turn on
>>> CONFIG_X86_UV, or else their kernel is not going to boot on UV.
>>>
>>>
>> Distros will generally turn on everything. You could have it on by default
>> if the kernel is built for CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH which enables support for
>> other big numa configurations. I think distros generally build with that
>> enabled anyway.
>>
>
> config X86_GENERICARCH
> bool "Generic architecture"
> depends on X86_32
>

Ah, overlooked that.

OK, well, either way it still needs to be a separate config option.

J


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