Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:29:17 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] SImple Topology API v0.3 (1/2) |
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Hi!
> > > - bool 'Multiquad NUMA system' CONFIG_MULTIQUAD > > > + bool 'Multi-node NUMA system support' CONFIG_X86_NUMA > > > > Why not simply CONFIG_NUMA? > > Because NUMA is subordinate to X86, and another technology named NUMA > might appear? Nano-uplinked micro-array... No Ugliness Munched Archive? > Whatever...
NUMA means non-uniform memory access. At least IBM, AMD and SGI do NUMA; and I guess anyone with 100+ nodes *has* numa machine. (BUt as andrea already explained, CONFIG_NUMA is already taken for generic NUMA support.)
Pavel
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