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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