On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > True. That is why we want to limit the number of unmovable allocations and > > that is why ZONE_MOVABLE exists to limit those. However, unmovable > > allocations are already rare today. The overwhelming majority of allocations > > are movable and reclaimable. You can see that f.e. by looking at > > /proc/meminfo and see how high SUnreclaim: is (does not catch everything but > > its a good indicator). > > Just to inject another factor into the discussion, please remember that Linux > also runs on nommu systems, where things like user space allocations are > neither movable nor reclaimable. Hmmm.... However, sorting of the allocations would result in avoiding defragmentation to some degree? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html