will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened.
Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged).
Disable this if you don't want to see these messages.
- Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying hardware,
+ Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying
or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware.
This option only does something on certain CPUs.
(AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4)
default n if X86_PC
default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT)
help
- NUMA support for i386. This is currently high experimental
+ NUMA support for i386. This is currently highly experimental
and should be only used for kernel development. It might also
cause boot failures.
in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
- can have degraded performance from extra overhead that
+ can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
this option imposes.
Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.