mbind.2: Restore description of MPOL_BIND behavior before Linux 2.6.265

Krzysztof Kulakowski's patch updated the MPOL_BIND description
to describe current behavior, but the page should retain a
description of the older behavior as well.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2017-03-12 10:08:18 +01:00
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@ -219,6 +219,15 @@ the node with sufficient free memory that is closest to
the node where the allocation takes place.
Pages will not be allocated from any node not specified in the
IR nodemask .
(Before Linux 2.6.26,
.\" commit 19770b32609b6bf97a3dece2529089494cbfc549
page allocations came from
the node with the lowest numeric node ID first, until that node
contained no free memory.
Allocations then came from the node with the next highest
node ID specified in
.I nodemask
and so forth, until none of the specified nodes contained free memory.)
.TP
.B MPOL_INTERLEAVE
This mode specifies that page allocations be interleaved across the