Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7 | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:54:46 +0200 |
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On Friday 27 June 2003 16:43, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > The buddy allocator is not a good system for getting rid of fragmentation.
We've talked in the past about throwing out the buddy allocator and adopting something more modern and efficient and I hope somebody will actually get around to doing that. In any event, defragging is an orthogonal issue. Some allocation strategies may be statistically more resistiant to fragmentation than others, but no allocator has been invented, or ever will be, that can guarantee that terminal fragmentation will never occur - only active defragmentation can provide such a guarantee.
Regards,
Daniel
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