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Message-ID: <20090926181837.GA15018@basil.fritz.box> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:18:37 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix CONFIG_NUMA help message Noticed recently while looking at this file. The x86 NUMA Kconfig help entry is not quite correct. - Core i7 systems are always non NUMA. Refer to multi socket Nehalems instead. - Replace outdated EM64T term with Intel 64 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 384a897..47c81bd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1118,8 +1118,9 @@ config NUMA local memory controller of the CPU and add some more NUMA awareness to the kernel. - For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 - (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. + For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Xeon 75xx + (Intel Nehalem based multi socket systems), AMD Opteron, or Intel + 64 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 -- 1.6.0.2 -- ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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