From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, kiran@scalex86.org,
cl@linux-foundation.org, hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk,
lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, stable@kernel.org,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:53:16 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100316145220.4C54.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100316143406.4C45.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
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@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index 3015da0..fe09a2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -82,11 +82,13 @@ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for
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@sap.com>, 1.12.01
Updated:
Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007
+Updated:
+ KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010
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2010-03-16 5:47 ` + tmpfs-fix-oops-on-remounts-with-mpol=default.patch added to -mm tree KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-16 5:49 ` [PATCH 1/5] tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=default KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-17 14:16 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2010-03-16 5:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] tmpfs: mpol=bind:0 don't cause mount error KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-17 14:17 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2010-03-16 5:51 ` [PATCH 3/5] tmpfs: handle MPOL_LOCAL mount option properly KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-17 14:25 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2010-03-17 16:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-03-17 23:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-18 1:55 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2010-03-18 21:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-03-16 5:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] tmpfs: cleanup mpol_parse_str() KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-17 14:25 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2010-03-16 5:53 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2010-03-17 14:42 ` [PATCH 5/5] doc: add the documentation for mpol=local Lee Schermerhorn
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