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| author | Hugh Dickins | 2006-02-21 23:49:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2006-02-21 17:10:15 -0800 |
| commit | b00dc3ad74fdb676552d46ee573b88e927240d0c (patch) | |
| tree | 6dcf7806f1f0fc791d3455dcf233a11088b18b3a /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 808c783e9bfb217a90be5a996a867c41a69b40bd (diff) | |
[PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsing
I've been dissatisfied with the mpol_nodelist mount option which was
added to tmpfs earlier in -rc. Replace it by mpol=policy:nodelist.
And it was broken: a nodelist is a comma-separated list of numbers and
ranges; the mount options are a comma-separated list of token=values.
Whoops, blindly strsep'ing on commas doesn't work so well: since we've
no numeric tokens, and unlikely to add them, use that to distinguish.
Move the mpol= parsing to shmem_parse_mpol under CONFIG_NUMA, reject
all its options as invalid if not NUMA. /proc shows MPOL_PREFERRED
as "prefer", so use that name for the policy instead of "preferred".
Enforce that mpol=default has no nodelist; that mpol=prefer has one
node only; that mpol=bind has a nodelist; but let mpol=interleave use
node_online_map if no nodelist given. Describe this in tmpfs.txt.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
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 |