Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:53:01 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change CONFIG_NUMA description
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* KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> 
> CONFIG_NUMA description talk about a bit old thing.
> So, following changes are better.
> 
> o CONFIG_NUMA is no longer EXPERIMENTAL o Opteron is not the only 
> processor of NUMA topology on x86_64 no longer, but also Intel 
> Core7i has it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig |    7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

applied to tip/x86/doc, thanks! I've updated a few other details as 
well, see the final commit below.

	Ingo

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>From fd51b2d7d5df932767b89e00d0871a38a2c53e74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 02:27:19 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] x86: update CONFIG_NUMA description

Impact: clarify/update CONFIG_NUMA text

CONFIG_NUMA description talk about a bit old thing.
So, following changes are better.

 o CONFIG_NUMA is no longer EXPERIMENTAL

 o Opteron is not the only processor of NUMA topology on x86_64 no longer,
   but also Intel Core7i has it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 350bee1..38ae04b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -951,22 +951,26 @@ config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
 
 # Common NUMA Features
 config NUMA
-	bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
 	depends on SMP
 	depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL)
 	default n if X86_PC
 	default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP)
 	help
 	  Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support.
+
 	  The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
 	  local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
 	  NUMA awareness to the kernel.
 
-	  For 32-bit this is currently highly experimental and should be only
-	  used for kernel development. It might also cause boot failures.
-	  For 64-bit this is recommended on all multiprocessor Opteron systems.
-	  If the system is EM64T, you should say N unless your system is
-	  EM64T NUMA.
+	  For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core 7i
+	  (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T 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
+	  boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform.
+
+	  Otherwise, you should say N.
 
 comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI"
 	depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI)
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