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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2008-04-28 02:12:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -0700 |
| commit | 65d66fc02ed9433b957588071b60425b12628e25 (patch) | |
| tree | 8737b2e5d018dc9e9d310d9b032fbeeecd588e62 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 4c50bc0116cf3cc35e7152d6a8424b4db65f52d6 (diff) | |
mempolicy: update NUMA memory policy documentation
Updates Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt and
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe optional mempolicy mode flags.
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index 145e4408635..222437efd75 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt @@ -92,6 +92,18 @@ NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges, a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and largest node numbers in the range. For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15 +NUMA memory allocation policies have optional flags that can be used in +conjunction with their modes. These optional flags can be specified +when tmpfs is mounted by appending them to the mode before the NodeList. +See Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt for a list of all available +memory allocation policy mode flags. + + =static is equivalent to MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES + =relative is equivalent to MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES + +For example, mpol=bind=static:NodeList, is the equivalent of an +allocation policy of MPOL_BIND | MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES. + Note that trying to mount a tmpfs with an mpol option will fail if the running kernel does not support NUMA; and will fail if its nodelist specifies a node which is not online. If your system relies on that |