Am 15.12.2012 01:40, schrieb Mick:
> On Thursday 13 Dec 2012 14:13:56 Bruce Hill wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:44:45AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>> NUMA is also an option in the kernel. Should also be fully transparent.
>>> I got one machine with NUMA and only had to set an option for it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to check it's working properly?
>>
>> dmesg | grep NUMA
> 
> Hmm ... it seems that it can't find NUMA configuration:
> 
> $ dmesg | grep UMA
> No NUMA configuration found
> 
> Am I supposed to configure something in userspace?  This is what the kernel 
> has:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux dell_xps 3.5.7-gentoo #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 26 10:36:47 GMT 2012 x86_64 
> Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
[...]

"dell_xps" as in XPS laptop? There are no NUMA laptops.

Despite all the stuff about terminology, we are basically talking about
multi-socket systems. Things with mainboards like these [1] as opposed
to these [2].

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131378
[2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131725

Regards,
Florian Philipp