From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965398Ab0CPFxw (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:53:52 -0400 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:49648 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964977Ab0CPFxT (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:53:19 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: LKML Subject: [PATCH 5/5] doc: add the documentation for mpol=local Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, kiran@scalex86.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, stable@kernel.org, linux-mm , akpm@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20100316143406.4C45.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <201003122353.o2CNrC56015250@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20100316143406.4C45.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20100316145220.4C54.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:53:16 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: --- 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 3015da0..fe09a2c 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 all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...' -mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node +mpol=default use the process allocation policy + (see set_mempolicy(2)) mpol=prefer:Node prefers to allocate memory from the given Node mpol=bind:NodeList allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList mpol=interleave prefers to allocate from each node in turn mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn +mpol=local prefers to allocate memory from the local node NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges, a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and @@ -134,3 +136,5 @@ Author: Christoph Rohland , 1.12.01 Updated: Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007 +Updated: + KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010 -- 1.6.5.2