Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [patch] SImple Topology API v0.3 (1/2)

Timothy D. Witham
2002-08-28T22:31:56Z

How about the old Marketing name CONFIG_CCNUMA?

Tim

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 12:29, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > - bool 'Multiquad NUMA system' CONFIG_MULTIQUAD
> > > > + bool 'Multi-node NUMA system support' CONFIG_X86_NUMA
> > >
> > > Why not simply CONFIG_NUMA?
> >
> > Because NUMA is subordinate to X86, and another technology named NUMA
> > might appear? Nano-uplinked micro-array... No Ugliness Munched Archive?
> > Whatever...
>
> NUMA means non-uniform memory access. At least IBM, AMD and SGI do
> NUMA; and I guess anyone with 100+ nodes *has* numa machine. (BUt as
> andrea already explained, CONFIG_NUMA is already taken for generic
> NUMA support.)
>
> Pavel
>
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