> > > CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
> > > CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
> >
> > Linux has some problems with memory fragmentation, and using
> > the CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG option might get the kernel
> > hanging in some network-memory-allocation loop...
>
> No. Its an atomic allocation. It'll fail. Always defrag is however
> an unusual option
Linux 2.1.[456]x have been known to hang when the slab
system tries to allocate an 8kb piece of memory when
the memory is so badly fragmented that there are only
1-page pieces available...
With Zlatko's patch integrated in my patch the fragmentation
is combatted, instead it now leads to swapping frenzy :(
Better than crashing, but still bad... We need a general
memory defragmenter, but for that we'll need a way to find
the pte of a physical page... Some kind of phys_to_virt without
knowing the PID ??
Rik.
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