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author | KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2010-03-23 16:35:33 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-24 19:31:21 -0400 |
commit | 5574169613b40b85d6f4c67208fa4846b897a0a1 (patch) | |
tree | 050644509a39366d77fb03fc20efce19103cbefe /Documentation | |
parent | 926f2ae04f183098cf9a30521776fb2759c8afeb (diff) |
doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
commit 3f226aa1c (mempolicy: support mpol=local tmpfs mount option) added
new mpol=local mount option. but it didn't add a documentation.
This patch does it.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index 3015da0c6b2a..fe09a2cb1858 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | |||
@@ -82,11 +82,13 @@ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for | |||
82 | all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be | 82 | all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be |
83 | adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...' | 83 | adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...' |
84 | 84 | ||
85 | mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node | 85 | mpol=default use the process allocation policy |
86 | (see set_mempolicy(2)) | ||
86 | mpol=prefer:Node prefers to allocate memory from the given Node | 87 | mpol=prefer:Node prefers to allocate memory from the given Node |
87 | mpol=bind:NodeList allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList | 88 | mpol=bind:NodeList allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList |
88 | mpol=interleave prefers to allocate from each node in turn | 89 | mpol=interleave prefers to allocate from each node in turn |
89 | mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn | 90 | mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn |
91 | mpol=local prefers to allocate memory from the local node | ||
90 | 92 | ||
91 | NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges, | 93 | NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges, |
92 | a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and | 94 | a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and |
@@ -134,3 +136,5 @@ Author: | |||
134 | Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01 | 136 | Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01 |
135 | Updated: | 137 | Updated: |
136 | Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007 | 138 | Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007 |
139 | Updated: | ||
140 | KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010 | ||