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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:00:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
cc: Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
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Subject: Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)
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.
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