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@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
# 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)