From 46a1c81e34c152179c287d87e763b6938e9e7914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:35:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add the documentation for mpol=local commit 5574169613b40b85d6f4c67208fa4846b897a0a1 upstream. 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 Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index 222437efd75..a94fede7edf 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 , 1.12.01 Updated: Hugh Dickins , 4 June 2007 +Updated: + KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010 -- 2.11.4.GIT