From a0a7f55f550b0ae11fc1f1ffd830b5fb164e651e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Packit Service Date: Dec 09 2020 23:43:31 +0000 Subject: Apply patch 0008-memhog-add-man-page.patch patch_name: 0008-memhog-add-man-page.patch present_in_specfile: true --- diff --git a/memhog.8 b/memhog.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e28e784 --- /dev/null +++ b/memhog.8 @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +.TH MEMHOG 8 "2003,2004" "SuSE Labs" "Linux Administrator's Manual" +.SH NAME +memhog \- Allocates memory with policy for testing +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B memhog +[ +.B \-r +] [ +.B size kmg +] [ +.B policy nodeset +] [ +.B \-f +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B memhog +mmaps a memory region for a given size and sets the numa policy (if specified). +It then updates the memory region for the given number of iterations using memset. +.TS +tab(|); +l l. +-r|Repeat memset NUM times +-f|Open file for mmap backing +-H|Disable transparent hugepages +-size|Allocation size in bytes, may have case-insensitive order +|suffix (G=gigabyte, M=megabyte, K=kilobyte) +.TE + +Supported numa-policies: +.TP +.B interleave +Memory will be allocated using round robin on nodes. When +memory cannot be allocated on the current interleave, target fall back +to other nodes. Multiple nodes may be specified. +.TP +.B membind +Only allocate memory from nodes. Allocation will fail +when there is not enough memory available on these nodes. Multiple +nodes may be specified. +.TP +.B preferred +Preferably allocate memory on node, but if memory cannot be +allocated there fall back to other nodes. This option takes only a +single node number. +.TP +.B default +Memory will be allocated on the local node (the node the +thread is running on) + +.SH EXAMPLES +.TP +# Allocate a 1G region, mmap backed by memhog.mmap file, membind to node 0, repeat test 6 times +memhog -r6 1G --membind 0 -fmemhog.mmap +.TP +# Allocate a 1G region, iterleave across nodes 0,1,2,3, repeat test 4 times +memhog -r4 1G --interleave 0-3 +.TP +# Allocate a 1G region, (implicit) default policy, repeat test 8 times +memhog -r8 1G + +.SH AUTHORS +Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) + +.SH LICENSE +GPL v2 + +.SH SEE ALSO +.I mmap(2), memset(3), numactl(8), numastat(8)