From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Gleb Natapov <glebn@voltaire.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document Linux Memory Policy
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:43:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705312243.20242.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070531200644.GD10459@minantech.com>
> > > Do I
> > > miss something here?
> >
> > I think you do.
> OK. It seems I missed the fact that VMA policy is completely ignored for
> pagecache backed files and only task policy is used.
That's not correct. tmpfs is page cache backed and supports (even shared) VMA policy.
hugetlbfs used to too, but lost its ability, but will hopefully get it again.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-29 19:33 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-29 20:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-29 20:16 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-30 16:17 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-30 17:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 8:20 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-05-31 14:49 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-31 15:56 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-06-01 21:15 ` [PATCH] enhance memory policy sys call man pages v1 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-23 6:11 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-23 6:32 ` mbind.2 man page patch Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-23 14:26 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-26 17:19 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-26 18:06 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-26 18:18 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-23 6:32 ` get_mempolicy.2 " Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-28 9:31 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-09 18:43 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-09 20:57 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-16 20:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-18 5:50 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-21 15:45 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-22 4:10 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-22 16:08 ` [PATCH] Mempolicy Man Pages 2.64 1/3 - mbind.2 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 11:29 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-22 16:10 ` [PATCH] Mempolicy Man Pages 2.64 2/3 - set_mempolicy.2 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 11:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-22 16:12 ` [PATCH] Mempolicy Man Pages 2.64 3/3 - get_mempolicy.2 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 11:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-27 10:46 ` get_mempolicy.2 man page patch Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-23 6:33 ` set_mempolicy.2 " Michael Kerrisk
2007-05-30 16:55 ` [PATCH] Document Linux Memory Policy Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-30 17:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 6:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 6:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 6:47 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 6:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 7:11 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 7:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 7:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 17:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 17:07 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-31 10:43 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-31 11:04 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 11:30 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 15:26 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-31 17:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 18:56 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-31 20:06 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 20:43 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-01 9:38 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-06-01 10:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 12:25 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-06-01 13:09 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 17:15 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-01 18:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-01 19:38 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-01 19:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-01 21:05 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-01 21:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-04 13:46 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-04 16:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-04 17:02 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-04 17:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-04 20:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 21:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-05 14:30 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-01 20:28 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-06-01 20:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-01 21:10 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-01 21:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-02 7:23 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 11:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-31 11:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 12:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-31 12:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-05-31 18:28 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-31 18:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 19:29 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-31 19:25 ` Paul Jackson
2007-05-31 20:22 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-29 20:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-30 16:04 ` Lee Schermerhorn
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