Re: Active defragmentation : A replacement for bigphysarea?

From: Alok Mooley
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 22:19:00 EST



--- Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Alok Mooley wrote:
>
> > I have implemented a memory defragmentation
> utility
> > for linux kernel 2.6 based on the paper by Mr.
> Daniel
> > Phillips.
>
> That's very interesting, but:
> 1) what is your name, "Alok Mooley" or "Vijay
> Agashe" ? ;)
We both are part of a project group of 4 students. We
both had posted separate mails because one was
rejected due to the mail being in html (or so the
person at linux-kernel said).

> 2) could we please see your code, so we can try to
> answer
> your questions ?
>
> > Can this utility be used instead of the
> bigphysarea
> > patch, for requirements less than MAX_ORDER of
> > allocation ?
>
> This question is really hard to answer without
> seeing the
> code.

The code will be posted by this month end.

-Alok

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