From 65d66fc02ed9433b957588071b60425b12628e25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:12:31 -0700 Subject: mempolicy: update NUMA memory policy documentation Updates Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt and Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe optional mempolicy mode flags. Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index 145e4408635..222437efd75 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt @@ -92,6 +92,18 @@ NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges, a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and largest node numbers in the range. For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15 +NUMA memory allocation policies have optional flags that can be used in +conjunction with their modes. These optional flags can be specified +when tmpfs is mounted by appending them to the mode before the NodeList. +See Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt for a list of all available +memory allocation policy mode flags. + + =static is equivalent to MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES + =relative is equivalent to MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES + +For example, mpol=bind=static:NodeList, is the equivalent of an +allocation policy of MPOL_BIND | MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES. + Note that trying to mount a tmpfs with an mpol option will fail if the running kernel does not support NUMA; and will fail if its nodelist specifies a node which is not online. If your system relies on that -- cgit v1.2.3