GIT: unionfs2-2.6.27.y: doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
Erez Zadok
ezk at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
Thu Aug 12 23:15:16 EDT 2010
commit 46a1c81e34c152179c287d87e763b6938e9e7914
Author: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue Mar 23 13:35:33 2010 -0700
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 <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran at scalex86.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel at csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn at hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins at tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index 222437e..a94fede 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 at sap.com>, 1.12.01
Updated:
Hugh Dickins <hugh at veritas.com>, 4 June 2007
+Updated:
+ KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010
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