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Date:	Fri, 1 May 2009 15:29:58 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, andi@...stfloor.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, anton@...ba.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30] Doc: hashdist defaults on for 64bit

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:45:43PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Update Doc: kernel boot parameter hashdist now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>

> ---
> 
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- 2.6.30-rc4/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	2009-04-30 06:39:30.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	2009-05-01 14:08:56.000000000 +0100
> @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
>  
>  	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
>  			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
> -			for IA-64, off otherwise.
> +			for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise.
>  			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
>  
>  	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
> 

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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