From b00dc3ad74fdb676552d46ee573b88e927240d0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:49:47 +0000 Subject: [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 Acked-by: Robin Holt Acked-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 , 1.12.01 Updated: - Hugh Dickins , 13 March 2005 + Hugh Dickins , 19 February 2006 -- cgit v1.2.3