Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2020-12-10

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: Update NUMA Kconfig description & help text

From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2020-11-24 19:54:12

On 11/24/20 4:05 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
Update the NUMA Kconfig description to match other architectures, and
add some help text. Shamelessly borrowed from x86/arm64.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>

Thanks.
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---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 4d688b426353..7f4995b245a3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -659,9 +659,15 @@ config IRQ_ALL_CPUS
 	  reported with SMP Power Macintoshes with this option enabled.
 
 config NUMA
-	bool "NUMA support"
+	bool "NUMA Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
 	depends on PPC64 && SMP
 	default y if PPC_PSERIES || PPC_POWERNV
+	help
+	  Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support.
+
+	  The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
+	  local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
+	  NUMA awareness to the kernel.
 
 config NODES_SHIFT
 	int

-- 
~Randy
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