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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 12 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 01c3108d2e31..6a8e4667ab38 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | |||
@@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ huge page pool to 20, allocating or freeing huge pages, as required. | |||
90 | On a NUMA platform, the kernel will attempt to distribute the huge page pool | 90 | On a NUMA platform, the kernel will attempt to distribute the huge page pool |
91 | over all the set of allowed nodes specified by the NUMA memory policy of the | 91 | over all the set of allowed nodes specified by the NUMA memory policy of the |
92 | task that modifies nr_hugepages. The default for the allowed nodes--when the | 92 | task that modifies nr_hugepages. The default for the allowed nodes--when the |
93 | task has default memory policy--is all on-line nodes. Allowed nodes with | 93 | task has default memory policy--is all on-line nodes with memory. Allowed |
94 | insufficient available, contiguous memory for a huge page will be silently | 94 | nodes with insufficient available, contiguous memory for a huge page will be |
95 | skipped when allocating persistent huge pages. See the discussion below of | 95 | silently skipped when allocating persistent huge pages. See the discussion |
96 | the interaction of task memory policy, cpusets and per node attributes with | 96 | below of the interaction of task memory policy, cpusets and per node attributes |
97 | the allocation and freeing of persistent huge pages. | 97 | with the allocation and freeing of persistent huge pages. |
98 | 98 | ||
99 | The success or failure of huge page allocation depends on the amount of | 99 | The success or failure of huge page allocation depends on the amount of |
100 | physically contiguous memory that is present in system at the time of the | 100 | physically contiguous memory that is present in system at the time of the |
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ resulting effect on persistent huge page allocation is as follows: | |||
226 | without first moving to a cpuset that contains all of the desired nodes. | 226 | without first moving to a cpuset that contains all of the desired nodes. |
227 | 227 | ||
228 | 5) Boot-time huge page allocation attempts to distribute the requested number | 228 | 5) Boot-time huge page allocation attempts to distribute the requested number |
229 | of huge pages over all on-lines nodes. | 229 | of huge pages over all on-lines nodes with memory. |
230 | 230 | ||
231 | Per Node Hugepages Attributes | 231 | Per Node Hugepages Attributes |
232 | 232 | ||