Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:42:50 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-3D] Try my new DMA kernel functions |
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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Simon Pogarcic wrote:
> The chunk size realy doesn't matter - what's funy, during testing I > released that very often found chunks are contiguous (those of 128k) and > get backwards. If I could somehow scan RAM before getting chunks, would be > great. I've heard there is some patch which gives you fragmentation info > of RAM - do you know where to find it ?
It's on my page, mm-patches page -> unsorted patches.
> However, I think that very good aproach would be some de-fragment function > in kernel. You don't even have to defragment whole RAM, just so much you
A good remedy would be a new zone-based memory allocator.
The design is there and I'll start the coding once my room is redecorated (friday?).
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