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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2008-04-28 02:12:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -0700 |
| commit | 19770b32609b6bf97a3dece2529089494cbfc549 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b5922d1b20aabdf929bde9309f323841717747a /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | dd1a239f6f2d4d3eedd318583ec319aa145b324c (diff) | |
mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask
The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations
controlled by that mempolicy. As the per-node zonelist is already being
filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that
takes a nodemask for further filtering. This eliminates the need for
MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist.
A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the
local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered
zonelist. I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with
available memory.
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index dd498649799..1278e685d65 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt @@ -182,14 +182,9 @@ Components of Memory Policies The Default mode does not use the optional set of nodes. MPOL_BIND: This mode specifies that memory must come from the - set of nodes specified by the policy. - - The memory policy APIs do not specify an order in which the nodes - will be searched. However, unlike "local allocation", the Bind - policy does not consider the distance between the nodes. Rather, - allocations will fallback to the nodes specified by the policy in - order of numeric node id. Like everything in Linux, this is subject - to change. + set of nodes specified by the policy. Memory will be allocated from + the node in the set with sufficient free memory that is closest to + the node where the allocation takes place. MPOL_PREFERRED: This mode specifies that the allocation should be attempted from the single node specified in the policy. If that |