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