Re: Comments on UV tlb flushing

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 10:43:53 EST


Cliff Wickman wrote:
I think that the Linux distributions are not going to build a special
UV kernel, are they? So every distro would have to be prompted to turn on CONFIG_X86_UV, or else their kernel is not going to boot on UV.

Distros will generally turn on everything. You could have it on by default if the kernel is built for CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH which enables support for other big numa configurations. I think distros generally build with that enabled anyway.

J
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