Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

[Grant Taylor]

On 9/23/21 4:39 AM, Miles Malone wrote:
> You'd need NUMA if you had a NUMA machine.  In current context, that
> would be either a) a dual socket system, b) an amd threadripper, or
> c) some of the really high core xeons.  If your motherboard doesnt
> have certain memory banks allocated to certain processors or cores,
> you're probably not running a NUMA machine.

Will a kernel without NUMA support boot and run on a system that has a 
NUMA architecture?

If it will boot and run, does it simply do so in a sub-optimal way?

Flipping the coin on the other side, is there any negative effect (other 
than kernel size / lines of code / attack surface) for having NUMA 
support enabled on a non-NUMA system?



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