linux/Documentation/vm
Mel Gorman 19770b3260 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>
2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
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00-INDEX doc: move vm/00-INDEX to Documentation/vm 2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
balance Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
hugetlbpage.txt Documentation: correct overcommit caveat in hugetlbpage.txt 2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
locking [PATCH] swap: swap_lock replace list+device 2005-09-05 00:05:42 -07:00
numa Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
numa_memory_policy.txt mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
overcommit-accounting Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
page_migration [PATCH] page migration: sys_move_pages(): support moving of individual pages 2006-06-23 07:42:53 -07:00
slabinfo.c slabinfo: fall back from /sys/kernel/slab to /sys/slab 2008-02-21 15:27:06 -08:00
slub.txt slub: fix typo in Documentation/vm/slub.txt 2008-03-06 16:21:50 -08:00