Re: [Patch] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies (Resend with corrected addresses).

Robin Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This patch introduces 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.

Confused.  Is this for applications which cannot be taught to use the
mempolicy API?
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