Re: [PATCH] enable sparsemem without CONFIG_NUMA

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 10:15:45 EST



* Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Linus,
>
> While testing for more than 8 cpus, I couldn't select sparsemem when
> CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH is selected instead of CONFIG_X86_PC.
>
> Here's a patch to enable sparsemem independent of NUMA instead of just
> flatmem ... unless there a reason for sparsemem to depend on NUMA for
> more than 8 CPUs?

note, i already queued this up in tip/x86/defconfig two days ago, for
v2.6.28.

Ingo

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