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[$] Improvements for the contiguous memory allocator
Wednesday April 16, 2025. 05:11 PM , from LWN.net
As a system runs, its memory becomes fragmented; it does not take long
before the allocation of large, physically contiguous memory ranges becomes difficult or impossible. The contiguous memory allocator (CMA) is a kernel subsystem that attempts to address this problem, but it has never worked as well as some would like. Two sessions in the memory-management track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit looked at how CMA can be improved; the first looked at providing guaranteed allocations, while the second addressed some inefficiencies in CMA.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1016844/
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