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Message-ID: <530486.50523.qm@web162020.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:54:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Pintu Agarwal <pintu_agarwal@...oo.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, azurIt <azurit@...ox.sk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Regarding memory fragmentation using malloc....

Dear All,

I am trying to understand how memory fragmentation occurs in linux using many malloc calls.
I am trying to reproduce the page fragmentation problem in linux 2.6.29.x on a linux mobile(without Swap) using a small malloc(in loop) test program of BLOCK_SIZE (64*(4*K)).
And then monitoring the page changes in /proc/buddyinfo after each operation.
>From the output I can see that the page values under buddyinfo keeps changing. But I am not able to relate these changes with my malloc BLOCK_SIZE.
I mean with my BLOCK_SIZE of (2^6 x 4K ==> 2^6 PAGES) the 2^6 th block under /proc/buddyinfo should change. But this is not the actual behaviour.
Whatever is the blocksize, the buddyinfo changes only for 2^0 or 2^1 or 2^2 or 2^3.

I am trying to measure the level of fragmentation after each page allocation.
Can somebody explain me in detail, how actually /proc/buddyinfo changes after each allocation and deallocation.


Thanks,
Pintu



      
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