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[$] Preserving the mobility of ZONE_MOVABLE
Friday January 22, 2021. 07:08 PM , from LWN.net
Memory fragmentation has long been a problem for Linux systems, to the
point that, for years, finding even two physically contiguous pages was an uncertain affair. That said, the situation has improved considerably in the last decade or so thanks to a number of changes implemented by the memory-management developers. One of those changes is the creation of 'movable' memory zones where pages can be relocated if need be. All that work is for nothing, though, if somebody comes along and pins down a page in one of these movable zones. This patch set from Pavel Tatashin seeks to prevent that from happening, but may risk creating problems elsewhere.
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