Re: Comments on UV tlb flushing

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Cliff Wickman wrote:
> >     
> > > I think that the Linux distributions are not going to build a special
> > > UV kernel, are they?  So every distro would have to be prompted to turn on
> > > CONFIG_X86_UV, or else their kernel is not going to boot on UV.
> > >
> > >       
> > Distros will generally turn on everything.  You could have it on by default
> > if the kernel is built for CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH which enables support for
> > other big numa configurations.  I think distros generally build with that
> > enabled anyway.
> >     
>
> config X86_GENERICARCH
>        bool "Generic architecture"
>         depends on X86_32
>   

Ah, overlooked that.

OK, well, either way it still needs to be a separate config option.

   J
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