Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kleen, Andi" <> | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:59:57 +0000 | Subject | RE: [PATCH 0/4] big chunk memory allocator v4 |
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> > But yes, because of fragmentation, this cannot guarantee 100% > alloc. > > If alloc_contig_pages() is called in system boot up or movable_zone > is used, > > this allocation succeeds at high rate. > > So this is an alternatve implementation for the functionality offered > by Michal's "The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework".
I see them more as orthogonal: Michal's code relies on preallocation and manages the memory after that.
This code supplies the infrastructure to replace preallocation with just using movable zones.
-Andi
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