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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:54:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Pintu Agarwal <pintu_agarwal@yahoo.com>
Subject: Regarding memory fragmentation using malloc....
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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Dear All,

I am trying to understand how memory fragmentation occurs in linux using many malloc calls.
I am trying to reproduce the page fragmentation problem in linux 2.6.29.x on a linux mobile(without Swap) using a small malloc(in loop) test program of BLOCK_SIZE (64*(4*K)).
And then monitoring the page changes in /proc/buddyinfo after each operation.
>From the output I can see that the page values under buddyinfo keeps changing. But I am not able to relate these changes with my malloc BLOCK_SIZE.
I mean with my BLOCK_SIZE of (2^6 x 4K ==> 2^6 PAGES) the 2^6 th block under /proc/buddyinfo should change. But this is not the actual behaviour.
Whatever is the blocksize, the buddyinfo changes only for 2^0 or 2^1 or 2^2 or 2^3.

I am trying to measure the level of fragmentation after each page allocation.
Can somebody explain me in detail, how actually /proc/buddyinfo changes after each allocation and deallocation.


Thanks,
Pintu


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