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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:55:43PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> That already happens.

Yep as shown by /proc/pagetypeinfo.

> True. Christoph made a few stabs at being able to slab targetted reclaim
> (called defragmentation, but it was about reclaim) but it was never completed
> and merged. Even if it was merged, the slab reclaimable objects would
> still be kept in their own 2M pageblocks though.

I guess it's not easy and more expensive to reclaim in use object, I
didn't see the targetted reclaim patches. So it sounds ok if they stay
in their own pageblocks separated from the movable pageblocks, even if
they become fully reclaimable.

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