Linux: Compacting Memory

Posted by dcparris on Jun 1, 2007 3:25 AM EDT
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Mel Gorman offered a first release of a patchset that compacts memory,"this is a prototype for compacting memory to reduce external fragmentation so that free memory exists as fewer, but larger contiguous blocks. Rather than being a full defragmentation solution, this focuses exclusively on pages that are movable via the page migration mechanism."

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