Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:25:37 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Comments on UV tlb flushing |
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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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