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doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
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doc-add-the-documentation-for-mpol=local.patch
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Subject: doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt~doc-add-the-documentation-for-mpol=local Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt~doc-add-the-documentation-for-mpol=local
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -82,11 +82,13 @@ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA
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 <cr@xxxxxxx>, 1.12.01
Updated:
Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007
+Updated:
+ KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
tmpfs-fix-oops-on-mounts-with-mpol=default.patch
tmpfs-mpol=bind-0-dont-cause-mount-error.patch
tmpfs-handle-mpol_local-mount-option-properly.patch
tmpfs-cleanup-mpol_parse_str.patch
doc-add-the-documentation-for-mpol=local.patch
mm-remove-return-value-of-putback_lru_pages.patch
mempolicy-remove-redundant-code.patch
page-allocator-reduce-fragmentation-in-buddy-allocator-by-adding-buddies-that-are-merging-to-the-tail-of-the-free-lists.patch
page-allocator-reduce-fragmentation-in-buddy-allocator-by-adding-buddies-that-are-merging-to-the-tail-of-the-free-lists-fix.patch
proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments.patch
reiser4.patch
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