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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/numa | 7 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 6996b7727b85..86b0e8ec8ad7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2783,7 +2783,7 @@ Allowed values are enable and disable numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. - one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified + 'node', 'default' can be specified This can be set from sysctl after boot. See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 48244c42ff52..9baf66a9ef4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -572,7 +572,9 @@ See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. numa_zonelist_order -This sysctl is only for NUMA. +This sysctl is only for NUMA and it is deprecated. Anything but +Node order will fail! + 'where the memory is allocated from' is controlled by zonelists. (This documentation ignores ZONE_HIGHMEM/ZONE_DMA32 for simple explanation. you may be able to read ZONE_DMA as ZONE_DMA32...) diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa b/Documentation/vm/numa index a08f71647714..a31b85b9bb88 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa @@ -79,11 +79,8 @@ memory, Linux must decide whether to order the zonelists such that allocations fall back to the same zone type on a different node, or to a different zone type on the same node. This is an important consideration because some zones, such as DMA or DMA32, represent relatively scarce resources. Linux chooses -a default zonelist order based on the sizes of the various zone types relative -to the total memory of the node and the total memory of the system. The -default zonelist order may be overridden using the numa_zonelist_order kernel -boot parameter or sysctl. [see Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst and -Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt] +a default Node ordered zonelist. This means it tries to fallback to other zones +from the same node before using remote nodes which are ordered by NUMA distance. By default, Linux will attempt to satisfy memory allocation requests from the node to which the CPU that executes the request is assigned. Specifically, |