Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:39:36 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86: make UV support optional |
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Hi!
> The problem arises that if the option becomes too obscure (and never > enabled), then it won't get tested. We (as many companies do) rely on > distros to certify applications and security features using a standard > kernel, and if an option (such as X86_UV) causes any problems whatsoever, > they'll drop it and we no longer have that application certification.
If SGI UV is really important, I'm sure you can ask distros to keep it enabled.
> Currently, Ingo's test setup sets MAXSMP quite a bit and he's found > many problems with large NR_CPUS counts that we never would have found > ourselves. Please don't make that process any harder.
Yeah, and remove config_386 too. Just hardcode it to y.
No, sorry, I don't see why we should treat UV specially.
> In fact, 13k is peanuts. Why don't you set something like "very minimal
13K is quite a lot, actually. Pavel
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