[OE-core] [PATCH] recipes-kernel/linux: Enable NUMA Kconfig from MACHINE_FEATURES

[Alistair Francis]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Alistair Francis <alistair23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:27 AM, Bruce Ashfield
> <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:45 AM, Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal at intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/03/2018 04:49 AM, Alistair Francis wrote:
>>> > +KERNEL_FEATURES_append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES',
>>> > 'numa', 'features/numa/numa.scc', '', d)}"
>>>
>>> Isn't this enough to pull in the required configuration from
>>>
>>>
>>> https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-kernel-cache/tree/features/numa/numa.cfg
>>>
>>> If numa.cfg is missing something in yocto-kernel-cache that should be
>>> applied to all machines, perhaps these configurations should be added
>>> there?
>>
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>> I wanted to run with this patch myself before sending feedback. In fact, I
>> think that the kernel-cache
>> numa config fragments are being used anyway. But since I'm traveling, I
>> haven't gotten to that yet.
>>
>> Alistair: if you drop your fragment, are you actually getting a failure
>> during the kernel meta data task ?
>
> From memory I didn't see a failure, but I didn't see the NUMA support
> in the kernel.
>
> I'll run a test now.

It looks like the fragment isn't required.

Do you want me to resend the patch with the config fragment removed or
is something for this already in the works?

Alistair

>
> Alistair
>
>>
>> I will resubmit my patches shortly that allow any kernel to leverage the
>> shared config frags, so
>> using the ones in the kernel cache definitely makes sense.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
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