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@@ -245,6 +245,13 @@ MPOL_INTERLEAVED
address range or file. During system boot up, the temporary
interleaved system default policy works in this mode.
+MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
+ This mode specifices that the allocation should be preferrably
+ satisfied from the nodemask specified in the policy. If there is
+ a memory pressure on all nodes in the nodemask, the allocation
+ can fall back to all existing numa nodes. This is effectively
+ MPOL_PREFERRED allowed for a mask rather than a single node.
+
NUMA memory policy supports the following optional mode flags:
MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
@@ -253,10 +260,10 @@ MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
nodes changes after the memory policy has been defined.
Without this flag, any time a mempolicy is rebound because of a
- change in the set of allowed nodes, the node (Preferred) or
- nodemask (Bind, Interleave) is remapped to the new set of
- allowed nodes. This may result in nodes being used that were
- previously undesired.
+ change in the set of allowed nodes, the preferred nodemask (Preferred
+ Many), preferred node (Preferred) or nodemask (Bind, Interleave) is
+ remapped to the new set of allowed nodes. This may result in nodes
+ being used that were previously undesired.
With this flag, if the user-specified nodes overlap with the
nodes allowed by the task's cpuset, then the memory policy is