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Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/node/
Describe NUMA node sysfs files/attributes. Note that for the specific dates and contacts I couldn't find, I left it as default for Oct 2002 and linux-mm. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/possible | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
Nodes that could be possibly become online at some point. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/online | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
Nodes that are online. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_normal_memory | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
Nodes that have regular memory. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_cpu | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
Nodes that have one or more CPUs. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_high_memory | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
Nodes that have regular or high memory. | ||
Depends on CONFIG_HIGHMEM. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, this is a directory containing | ||
information on node X such as what CPUs are local to the | ||
node. | ||
node. Each file is detailed next. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpumap | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
The node's cpumap. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
The CPUs associated to the node. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/meminfo | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
Provides information about the node's distribution and memory | ||
utilization. Similar to /proc/meminfo, see Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/numastat | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
The node's hit/miss statistics, in units of pages. | ||
See Documentation/numastat.txt | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/distance | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
Distance between the node and all the other nodes | ||
in the system. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/vmstat | ||
Date: October 2002 | ||
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
Description: | ||
The node's zoned virtual memory statistics. | ||
This is a superset of numastat. | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/compact | ||
Date: February 2010 | ||
Contact: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | ||
Description: | ||
When this file is written to, all memory within that node | ||
will be compacted. When it completes, memory will be freed | ||
into blocks which have as many contiguous pages as possible | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/scan_unevictable_pages | ||
Date: October 2008 | ||
Contact: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> | ||
Description: | ||
When set, it triggers scanning the node's unevictable lists | ||
and move any pages that have become evictable onto the respective | ||
zone's inactive list. See mm/vmscan.c | ||
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What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/hugepages/hugepages-<size>/ | ||
Date: December 2009 | ||
Contact: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> | ||
Description: | ||
The node's huge page size control/query attributes. | ||
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt |