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author | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2006-01-17 19:49:59 -0800 |
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committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2006-01-17 19:49:59 -0800 |
commit | d65177c1ae7f085723154105c5dc8d9e16ae8265 (patch) | |
tree | 14408129d880d89cc5e937f2810f243ed1e6fcde /Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | |
parent | d41f084a74de860fe879403fbbad13abdf7aea8e (diff) | |
parent | 15578eeb6cd4b74492f26e60624aa1a9a52ddd7b (diff) | |
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Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index 0d783c504ead..dbe4d87d2615 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt @@ -78,6 +78,18 @@ use up all the memory on the machine; but enhances the scalability of that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it. +tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for +all files in that instance: +mpol=interleave prefers to allocate memory from each node in turn +mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node +mpol=bind prefers to allocate from mpol_nodelist +mpol=preferred prefers to allocate from first node in mpol_nodelist + +The following mount option is used in conjunction with mpol=interleave, +mpol=bind or mpol=preferred: +mpol_nodelist: nodelist suitable for parsing with nodelist_parse. + + To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount options: |