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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index dbe4d87d2615..8a155418c705 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt @@ -79,15 +79,18 @@ 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 +all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be +adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...' -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. +mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node +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 + +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 To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount @@ -109,4 +112,4 @@ RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root. Author: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01 Updated: - Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 13 March 2005 + Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 19 February 2006 |