Bug 202834

Summary:	RFE: add NUMA support to i686 kernel
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Jon Stanley <jon.stanley>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Daniel Riek <riek>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	4.2	CC:	jbaron, jwest, konradr, peterm
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Description Jon Stanley 2006-08-16 17:22:22 UTC

This is a RFE to add NUMA support to i686 kernel.  The NUMA config option is not
enabled on the default i686 kernels, and should be (maybe a kernel-smp-numa or
kernel-hugemem-numa package or something?).

I realize that there may be some stability issues with running the NUMA kernel
on non-NUMA hardware, but there is advantage to be gained by using it on NUMA
hardware where we cannot (for various reasons) use the x86_64 kernel.

Comment 1 Jason Baron 2006-08-22 18:35:46 UTC

interesting request...perhaps this might be appropriate for just the hugemem
kernel? We'll investigate...