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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/page_migration | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index 6aaaeb38730..be45dbb9d7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ The current memory policy support was added to Linux 2.6 around May 2004. This document attempts to describe the concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support. -Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets (Documentation/cpusets.txt) +Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets +(Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt) which is an administrative mechanism for restricting the nodes from which memory may be allocated by a set of processes. Memory policies are a programming interface that a NUMA-aware application can take advantage of. When diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_migration b/Documentation/vm/page_migration index d5fdfd34bba..6513fe2d90b 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_migration +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_migration @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ locations. Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into sections of nodes. Paul Jackson has equipped cpusets with the ability to -move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See ../cpusets.txt). +move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See +Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt). Cpusets allows the automation of process locality. If a task is moved to a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the performance of the process does not sink dramatically. Also the pages |