Hi, Valdis Klētnieks, Mulyadi Santosa Thanks to both of you. >> Just pseudo idea, if this is in user space, try to: allocate many blocks >> of memory using malloc, each having different size, keep the returned >> pointer, then randomly free() some of them, then malloc() again with >> different size
>That will cause userspace malloc() to have fragmentation, but as far >as the kernel is concerned it's all just 4K pages of user memory. >Causing physical memory fragmentation will require abusing the kernel >memory allocators such as kmalloc() and vmalloc() and friends. I fully understand what you mean by "cause userspace malloc() to have fragmentation". I am sorry, maybe I mislead you. I just want there are no available free high order blocks(i.e 32KB,64KB, 128KB and etc) on the platform. How can I more efficiently and automatically achieve this goal?
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