[PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsing

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / Documentation / filesystems / tmpfs.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index dbe4d87d26154dfe422bd20b51551509c0a99ef5..8a155418c705eac2a05d37ce7f20d2b0696c4a1d 100644 (file)
--- 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