On Tuesday 18 September 2007 08:00, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > I don't know how it would prevent fragmentation from building up > > anyway. It's commonly the case that potentially unmovable objects > > are allowed to fill up all of ram (dentries, inodes, etc). > > Not in 2.6.23 with ZONE_MOVABLE. Unmovable objects are not allocated from > ZONE_MOVABLE and thus the memory that can be allocated for them is > limited. Why would ZONE_MOVABLE require that "movable objects should be moved out of the way for unmovable ones"? It never _has_ any unmovable objects in it. Quite obviously we were not talking about reserve zones. - 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