From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759245AbYG2Onv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:43:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756598AbYG2Onn (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:43:43 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:53064 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755722AbYG2Onn (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:43:43 -0400 Message-ID: <488F2C9B.9070306@goop.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:43:39 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Wickman CC: Nick Piggin , steiner@sgi.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Comments on UV tlb flushing References: <488E644B.10801@goop.org> <200807291412.18495.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20080729133204.GA13138@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080729133204.GA13138@sgi.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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