From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix CONFIG_NUMA help message
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:18:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090926181837.GA15018@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
Noticed recently while looking at this file. The x86 NUMA Kconfig help
entry is not quite correct.
- Core i7 systems are always non NUMA. Refer to multi socket Nehalems instead.
- Replace outdated EM64T term with Intel 64
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 384a897..47c81bd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1118,8 +1118,9 @@ config NUMA
local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
NUMA awareness to the kernel.
- For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7
- (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA.
+ For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Xeon 75xx
+ (Intel Nehalem based multi socket systems), AMD Opteron, or Intel
+ 64 NUMA.
For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms
that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you
--
1.6.0.2
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-26 18:18 UTC|newest]
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2009-09-26 18:18 Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-09-26 19:44 ` Brice Goglin
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