linux/include
Robin Holt 7339ff8302 [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies
Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately
decrease the available memory on a particular node.  Since there's no telling
what sort of application (e.g.  dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files
there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their
site's situation.

Introduce 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.

This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins.  I
added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist
mount option.

Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
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acpi [ACPI] increase owner_id limit to 64 from 32 2005-12-21 04:52:16 -05:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-01-12 12:23:49 -08:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-generic Fix mutex_trylock() copy-and-paste bug (x86, x86-64, generic mutex-dec.h) 2006-01-11 15:50:47 -08:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] Altix: ioc3 serial support 2006-01-14 18:25:20 -08:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] m68k: kill mach_floppy_setup, convert to proper __setup() in drivers 2006-01-12 09:09:05 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] m68k: kill mach_floppy_setup, convert to proper __setup() in drivers 2006-01-12 09:09:05 -08:00
asm-mips [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] powerpc: oprofile cpu type names clash with other code 2006-01-14 11:12:16 +11:00
asm-ppc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-12 10:21:22 -08:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-sh [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] sparc64: task_pt_regs() 2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info 2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
keys [PATCH] Keys: Remove key duplication 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
linux [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies 2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (3347): Fixes some bad global variables 2006-01-11 20:26:13 -02:00
mtd [MTD] user-abi: Clean up trailing white spaces 2005-11-07 14:43:11 +01:00
net Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-01-13 15:28:10 -08:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: unify attach, EVENT_CARD_INSERTION handlers into one probe callback 2006-01-06 00:03:24 +01:00
rdma IB: Add node_guid to struct ib_device 2006-01-10 07:39:34 -08:00
rxrpc [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
scsi [SCSI] iscsi: seperate iscsi interface from setup functions 2006-01-14 10:55:20 -06:00
sound [PATCH] DocBook: fix kernel-doc comments 2006-01-10 08:01:53 -08:00
video [PATCH] include/video/newport.h: "extern inline" -> "static inline" 2006-01-10 08:01:50 -08:00