On Sep 23, 2007, at 02:22:12, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mel Gorman) writes:
On (16/09/07 23:58), Goswin von Brederlow didst pronounce:
But when you already have say 10% of the ram in mixed groups then it is a sign the external fragmentation happens and some time should be spend on moving movable objects.

I'll play around with it on the side and see what sort of results I get. I won't be pushing anything any time soon in relation to this though. For now, I don't intend to fiddle more with grouping pages by mobility for something that may or may not be of benefit to a feature that hasn't been widely tested with what exists today.

I watched the videos you posted. A nice and quite clear improvement with and without your logic. Cudos.

When you play around with it may I suggest a change to the display of the memory information. I think it would be valuable to use a Hilbert Curve to arange the pages into pixels. Like this:

# #  0  3
# #
###  1  2

### ###  0 1 E F
  # #
### ###  3 2 D C
#     #
# ### #  4 7 8 B
# # # #
### ###  5 6 9 A

Here's an excellent example of an 0-255 numbered hilbert curve used to enumerate the various top-level allocations of IPv4 space:
http://xkcd.com/195/

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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