[CentOS-devel] NumaChip kernel config option

Wed Aug 13 12:52:42 UTC 2014
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Daniel J Blueman <daniel at numascale.com> wrote:
> 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.

Please file a request at http://bugs.centos.org. I'll take it from there.

Thanks,
Akemi