linux/mm
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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bootmem.c [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm 2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] fadvise: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe 2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time 2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
filemap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
fremap.c VM: add common helper function to create the page tables 2005-11-29 14:03:14 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] mm: make hugepages obey cpusets. 2006-01-08 20:12:43 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm 2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: Add CONFIG_MIGRATION for page migration support 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
madvise.c [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store 2006-01-06 08:33:22 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memhotplug: __add_section remove unused pgdat definition 2006-01-06 08:33:21 -08:00
memory.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies 2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] gfp_t: mm/* (easy parts) 2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mremap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
msync.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
nommu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: Make SYSV IPC SHM use ramfs facilities on NOMMU 2006-01-06 08:33:32 -08:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] Optimise oom kill of current task 2006-01-08 20:12:45 -08:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] memmap_init_zone(): remove uneccesary page++ 2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
page-writeback.c identify multipage ->writepages() calls 2006-01-06 14:58:38 -05:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ to WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE 2006-01-03 11:45:42 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies 2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
slab.c [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging code 2006-01-11 08:14:16 -08:00
slob.c [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros 2006-01-08 20:13:38 -08:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] SwapMig: add_to_swap() avoid atomic allocations 2006-01-08 20:12:42 -08:00
swap.c [XFS] Export pagevec_lookup for use on the XFS page writeout path, 2006-01-11 20:47:41 +11:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] do_truncate() call fix in tiny-shmem.c 2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
util.c [PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix warnings in vmalloc.c 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] SwapMig: Switch error handling in migrate_pages to use -Exx 2006-01-08 20:12:42 -08:00