Hi Lee, On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:36 +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> Lee, >> >> As for the previous... Is this a documentation improvement, or is it a >> kerenl behavior change? > > Again, a change in behavior in 2.6.26. So, again, should the man-page not describe things as they were/are before and after the behavior change? Cheers, Michael >> Lee Schermerhorn wrote: >> > man2/mbind.2 | 7 +++---- >> > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> > >> > Index: man-pages-3.05/man2/mbind.2 >> > =================================================================== >> > --- man-pages-3.05.orig/man2/mbind.2 2008-07-29 16:54:13.000000000 -0400 >> > +++ man-pages-3.05/man2/mbind.2 2008-07-29 16:57:04.000000000 -0400 >> > @@ -212,10 +212,9 @@ the nodes specified in >> > If >> > .I nodemask >> > specifies more than one node, page allocations will come from >> > -the node with the lowest numeric node ID first, until that node >> > -contains no free memory. >> > -Allocations will then come from the node with the next highest >> > -node ID specified in >> > +the node closest to the node from which the allocation was requested, >> > +until that node contains no free memory. >> > +Allocations will then come from the next closest node specified in >> > .I nodemask >> > and so forth, until none of the specified nodes contain free memory. >> > Pages will not be allocated from any node not specified in the >> > >> > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-numa" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
