[CentOS-devel] NumaChip kernel config option

Daniel J Blueman daniel at numascale.com
Wed Aug 13 12:43:23 UTC 2014


On 08/13/2014 07:54 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 08/13/2014 04:41 AM, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>> On 13/08/2014 03:40, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 08/12/2014 04:19 AM, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>>>> Since CentOS is heavily used on Numascale systems, it would be a great
>>>> enabler to have CONFIG_NUMACHIP enabled in CentOS kernels.
>>>>
>>>> It has been enabled for some time in Ubuntu server kernels.
>>>>
>>>> What else is needed to request this?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>      Daniel
>>>
>>> This can not happen on the main CentOS distro kernels unless that option
>>> is on in RHEL as we rebuild our kernel to have the same options as that
>>> kernel.
>>>
>>> However, we have a CentOS Plus kernel where optional things are turned on.
>>
>> Indeed, I meant CONFIG_X86_NUMACHIP. I'll see what can be done upstream
>> with RHEL7.x or so in the medium term.
>
> sure, but in the mean time - is the pluskernel an option ? I dont think
> that got ruled out..

That would certainly help. Let me know if a Bugzilla entry or otherwise 
is needed to request it.

Thanks,
   Daniel
-- 
Daniel J Blueman
Principal Software Engineer, Numascale



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