When user would like use cgroups to restrict the allowed memory
nodes, and require not setting any specific memory policy, then
'restrictive' mode is useful.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luyao Zhong <luyao.zhong@xxxxxxxxx>
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docs/formatdomain.rst | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst
index 29d2e02da1..f32fcf03d5 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.rst
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
@@ -1112,8 +1112,11 @@ NUMA Node Tuning
``memory``
The optional ``memory`` element specifies how to allocate memory for the
domain process on a NUMA host. It contains several optional attributes.
- Attribute ``mode`` is either 'interleave', 'strict', or 'preferred', defaults
- to 'strict'. Attribute ``nodeset`` specifies the NUMA nodes, using the same
+ Attribute ``mode`` is either 'interleave', 'strict', 'preferred' or
+ 'restrictive', defaults to 'strict'. The value 'restrictive' specifies
+ using system default policy and only cgroups is used to restrict the
+ memory nodes, and it requires setting mode to 'restrictive' in ``memnode``
+ elements. Attribute ``nodeset`` specifies the NUMA nodes, using the same
syntax as attribute ``cpuset`` of element ``vcpu``. Attribute ``placement`` (
:since:`since 0.9.12` ) can be used to indicate the memory placement mode for
domain process, its value can be either "static" or "auto", defaults to
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