From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j4QKxQcE105414 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 16:59:26 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id j4QKxQhT199336 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:59:26 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4QKxQax021250 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:59:26 -0600 Subject: Re: defrag memory From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <6934efce0505261214345a609f@mail.gmail.com> References: <6934efce0505261214345a609f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:59:18 -0700 Message-Id: <1117141158.27082.22.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jared Hulbert Cc: linux-mm List-ID: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:14 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: > Is there a kernel mechanism to force a defrag of memory? No. There are a few efforts (external patches) to decrease fragmentation to allow for more ease in removing memory, or allocating larger physically contiguous areas, but nothing in mainline or -mm. Is there a particular reason you're interested? -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org