[PATCH for 2.6.23] i386: Mark NUMA support experimental

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 07:49:26 EST


I did some testing and found quite a lot of problems (doesn't
boot at all on non NUMA and misassigns cores on Opteron systems).

Mark it as experimental and warn against its use for now.

It's still default y for SUMMIT/NUMAQ because it'll presumably
work on these systems.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>

---
arch/i386/Kconfig | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -614,10 +614,14 @@ config X86_PAE

# Common NUMA Features
config NUMA
- bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
- depends on SMP && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && ACPI)
+ bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on SMP && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL
default n if X86_PC
default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT)
+ help
+ NUMA support for i386. This is currently high experimental
+ and should be only used for kernel development. It might also
+ cause boot failures.

comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI"
depends on X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI)
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