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From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
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Subject: 3.1-rc2: CONFIG_NUMA Question
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Hi,

I have a SuperMicro X8DTH-6F motherboard with 2 cpus it has NUMA options 
in the BIOS; what parameters/should I be using for the NUMA options in the 
kernel?

   | |    [*] Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support                 | |
   | |    [ ] Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection                         | |
   | |    [*] ACPI NUMA detection                                          | |
   | |    [ ] NUMA emulation                                               | |
   | |    (6) Maximum NUMA Nodes (as a power of 2)                         | |

Specifically, the maximum number of NUMA nodes?  Will this help to 
increase performance of large memory allocations/is there any downside
to enabling this feature?

Justin.