Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 23:53:41 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag |
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David Chinner wrote: > > Why are we out of memory? > > Defragmentation is triggered as part of the usual memory reclaim > process. Which implies we've run out of free memory, correct?
I don't think that's true on no-MMU. Defragmentation can be needed often on no-MMU when there's lots of free memory, just in the wrong places.
-- Jamie
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