Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:23:49 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies (Resend with corrected addresses). |
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Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote: > > This patch introduces a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a > memory policy and a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy. > With the default policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today. This patch > adds support for preferred, bind, and interleave policies. > > The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the > node which is doing the writing. Some jobs expect a single process to > create and manage the tmpfs files. This results in a node which has a > significantly reduced number of free pages. > > With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for > that policy where they would prefer allocations.
Confused. Is this for applications which cannot be taught to use the mempolicy API? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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