[elrepo] AMD EPYC Support

[Dave Chiluk]

The packages for centos 6 exist, I'm curious to hear how it goes.
Considering you'll be running KVM on top of that, I'd guess there is
probably some performance loss by running old version of KVM.

-- Change is hard --

Dave.



On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:02 PM <nick at ramnode.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dave. What do you think about trying kernel-ml on CentOS 6? We’re
> trying to do a direct swap of Intel for AMD without disrupting the existing
> systems (CentOS 6/kernel-lt el6 running KVM). Hoping to keep changes down
> to just reconfiguring networking.
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> Regards,
>
> Nick
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> *From:* elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org <elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Dave Chiluk via elrepo
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2018 10:24 AM
> *To:* EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [elrepo] AMD EPYC Support
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> As hardware support is accomplished primarily through the kernel, and
> you've likely replaced it with an elrepo kernel the Redhat documentation
> would not apply.  Additionally since Epyc is such a new processor you might
> have better luck running the kernel-ml instead of the kernel-lt as large
> driver backports are typically not accepted according to the linux-stable
> rules.
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> If I were you and intent on running an Epyc machine I'd move up to cent
> 7 + the kernel-ml, or move to Ubuntu Bionic which has a 4.15 kernel where
> they may have attempted to backport some of the Epyc enablement.
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> Good luck,
>
> Dave.
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> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:15 PM <nick at ramnode.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
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> Has anyone tried running kernel-lt 4.4 (el6) on AMD EPYC processors?
> RedHat documentation seems to indicate that RHEL/CentOS 6 is not supported
> on the EPYC lineup, but AMD’s documentation is unclear.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick
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