Re: [PATCH] Document Linux Memory Policy - V2

[Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:38 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:00:59 -0400 Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> 
> > [PATCH] Document Linux Memory Policy - V2
> > 
> >  Documentation/vm/memory_policy.txt |  278 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 278 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Index: Linux/Documentation/vm/memory_policy.txt
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> > +++ Linux/Documentation/vm/memory_policy.txt	2007-07-27 13:40:45.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -0,0 +1,278 @@
> > +
> 
> ...
> 
> > +
> > +MEMORY POLICY CONCEPTS
> > +
> > +Scope of Memory Policies
> > +
> > +The Linux kernel supports four more or less distinct scopes of memory policy:
> > +
> > +    System Default Policy:  this policy is "hard coded" into the kernel.  It
> > +    is the policy that governs the all page allocations that aren't controlled
> 
>                               drop ^ "the"
> 
> > +    by one of the more specific policy scopes discussed below.
> 
> Are these policies listed in order of "less specific scope to more
> specific scope"?

Randy:

Thanks for the quick review.   I will make the edits you suggest and
re-post after the weekend [hoping for more feedback...].

To answer your question, yes, it was my intent to order them from least
specific [or most general?] to most specific.  Shall I say so?

Other than these items, does the document make sense?  Do you think it's
worth adding?  Andi was concerned about having documentation in too many
places [code + doc].

Lee

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