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Impact: clarify/update CONFIG_NUMA text

CONFIG_NUMA description talk about a bit old thing.
So, following changes are better.

 o CONFIG_NUMA is no longer EXPERIMENTAL

 o Opteron is not the only processor of NUMA topology on x86_64 no longer,
   but also Intel Core7i has it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored and Ingo Molnar committed Nov 6, 2008
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# Common NUMA Features
config NUMA
bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
depends on SMP
depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL)
default n if X86_PC
default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP)
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.

For 32-bit this is currently highly experimental and should be only
used for kernel development. It might also cause boot failures.
For 64-bit this is recommended on all multiprocessor Opteron systems.
If the system is EM64T, you should say N unless your system is
EM64T NUMA.
For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core 7i
(or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA.

For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms
that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you
boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform.

Otherwise, you should say N.

comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI"
depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI)
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