[PATCH] ppc64 memory model depends on NUMA
Joel Schopp
jschopp at austin.ibm.com
Thu Oct 27 03:25:55 EST 2005
> Currently when we first select memory model (FLAT, DISCONTIG, SPARSE)
> then select whether the machine is NUMA. However NUMA systems may not
> be FLAT. This constraint it not honoured and we may configure a NUMA/FLAT
> system.
The result of which is that without this patch people were configuring kernels
that didn't compile. Because this change is straightforward and fixes a real
problem, I believe it should go either into 2.6.14 or 2.6.14.x .
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