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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2008-04-28 02:12:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 08:58:19 -0700
commit19770b32609b6bf97a3dece2529089494cbfc549 (patch)
tree3b5922d1b20aabdf929bde9309f323841717747a /Documentation
parentdd1a239f6f2d4d3eedd318583ec319aa145b324c (diff)
mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask
The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations controlled by that mempolicy. As the per-node zonelist is already being filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that takes a nodemask for further filtering. This eliminates the need for MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist. A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered zonelist. I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with available memory. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt
index dd4986497996..1278e685d650 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt
@@ -182,14 +182,9 @@ Components of Memory Policies
The Default mode does not use the optional set of nodes.
MPOL_BIND: This mode specifies that memory must come from the
- set of nodes specified by the policy.
-
- The memory policy APIs do not specify an order in which the nodes
- will be searched. However, unlike "local allocation", the Bind
- policy does not consider the distance between the nodes. Rather,
- allocations will fallback to the nodes specified by the policy in
- order of numeric node id. Like everything in Linux, this is subject
- to change.
+ set of nodes specified by the policy. Memory will be allocated from
+ the node in the set with sufficient free memory that is closest to
+ the node where the allocation takes place.
MPOL_PREFERRED: This mode specifies that the allocation should be
attempted from the single node specified in the policy. If that