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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change CONFIG_NUMA description
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:51:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpwso4cv.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4910A43B.5030908@redhat.com> (Chris Snook's message of "Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:36:27 -0500")

Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> writes:

> KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> CONFIG_NUMA description talk about a bit old thing.
>> So, following changes are better.
>> o CONFIG_NUMA is no longer EXPERIMENTAL
>> o Opteron is not the only processor of NUMA topology on x86_64 no longer, but also Intel Core7i has it.
>> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> a) It's Core i7, not Core 7i
> b) Core i7 is, at least so far, the single-socket version, so NUMA
> doesn't apply.
>
> I think we should let Intel write the CONFIG_NUMA description for
> Nehalem processors.

The recommendation should be imho just to always enable it. Back 
when I wrote the description it was still experimental, but 
it really isn't anymore.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-06 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04 17:27 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-04 19:36 ` Chris Snook
2008-11-06 22:51   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-11-04 20:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-06  8:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-06 10:15   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-06 10:18     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-06 10:22     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07 22:13   ` Chris Snook
2008-11-08 12:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-09 11:41     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-06 22:50 ` Andi Kleen

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