Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> I don't know how it would prevent fragmentation from building up
> anyway. It's commonly the case that potentially unmovable objects
> are allowed to fill up all of ram (dentries, inodes, etc).

Not in 2.6.23 with ZONE_MOVABLE. Unmovable objects are not allocated from 
ZONE_MOVABLE and thus the memory that can be allocated for them is 
limited.



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