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| author | Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> | 2008-07-25 19:45:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -0700 |
| commit | d91958815d214ea365b98cbff6215383897edcb6 (patch) | |
| tree | a50416a04c9ae84c4242dbec62d8f211d97ea4d2 /Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt | |
| parent | 19fd6231279be3c3bdd02ed99f9b0eb195978064 (diff) | |
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Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index bad16d3f6a47..6aaaeb38730c 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ most general to most specific: the policy at the time they were allocated. VMA Policy: A "VMA" or "Virtual Memory Area" refers to a range of a task's - virtual adddress space. A task may define a specific policy for a range + virtual address space. A task may define a specific policy for a range of its virtual address space. See the MEMORY POLICIES APIS section, below, for an overview of the mbind() system call used to set a VMA policy. @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ follows: Because of this extra reference counting, and because we must lookup shared policies in a tree structure under spinlock, shared policies are - more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is expecially + more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is especially true for shared policies on shared memory regions shared by tasks running on different NUMA nodes. This extra overhead can be avoided by always falling back to task or system default policy for shared memory regions, |