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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: |