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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
-- 
1.6.5.2



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201003122353.o2CNrC56015250@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
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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