[PATCH -V8 2/3] NOT kernel/man2/set_mempolicy.2: Add mode flag MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING

From: Huang Ying
Date: Wed Jan 06 2021 - 01:59:19 EST


Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Alejandro Colomar" <alx.mailinglists@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man2/set_mempolicy.2 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/set_mempolicy.2 b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
index 68011eecb..fa64a1820 100644
--- a/man2/set_mempolicy.2
+++ b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
@@ -113,6 +113,22 @@ A nonempty
.I nodemask
specifies node IDs that are relative to the set of
node IDs allowed by the process's current cpuset.
+.TP
+.BR MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING " (since Linux 5.12)"
+When
+.I mode
+is
+.BR MPOL_BIND ,
+enable the kernel NUMA balancing for the task if it is supported by
+the kernel.
+If the flag isn't supported by the kernel, or is used with
+.I mode
+other than
+.BR MPOL_BIND ,
+return \-1 and
+.I errno
+is set to
+.BR EINVAL .
.PP
.I nodemask
points to a bit mask of node IDs that contains up to
@@ -293,6 +309,12 @@ argument specified both
.B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
and
.BR MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES .
+Or, the
+.B MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING
+isn't supported by the kernel, or is used with
+.I mode
+other than
+.BR MPOL_BIND .
.TP
.B ENOMEM
Insufficient kernel memory was available.
--
2.29.2