Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:16:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andreas Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc6-mm2] x86: add NUMA to oops messages |
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Am So 18.06.2006 14:13 schrieb Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>:
> In-Reply-To: <200606181059.44576.ak@suse.de> > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:59:44 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Sunday 18 June 2006 10:13, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > Add "NUMA" to x86 oops printouts to help with debugging. Use > > > vermagic.h > > > defines to clean up the code, suggested by Arjan van de Ven. > > > > I don't see any particular value in printing NUMA here, > > It helps a lot when trying to decode oopses posted to the list, as the > NUMA kernel is very different now that the slab allocator and > scheduler > are NUMA-aware.
And there are a thousand other things that change with other CONFIG_* options. I also can't remember a bug where this wasn't clear.
In general the rule of thumb is: i386: NUMA is not used and x86-64 SMP: NUMA is used.
-Andi
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