[CentOS-devel] NumaChip kernel config option

Wed Aug 13 11:54:26 UTC 2014
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

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..


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