package Others; import java.util.ArrayList; /** @author Dekas Dimitrios */ public class BestFit { private static final int NO_ALLOCATION = -255; // if a process has been allocated in position -255, // it means that it has not been actually allocated. /** * Method to find the maximum valued element of an array filled with positive integers. * * @param array: an array filled with positive integers. * @return the maximum valued element of the array. */ private static int findMaxElement(int[] array) { int max = -1; for (int value : array) { if (value > max) { max = value; } } return max; } /** * Method to find the index of the memory block that is going to fit the given process based on * the best fit algorithm. * * @param blocks: the array with the available memory blocks. * @param process: the size of the process. * @return the index of the block that fits, or -255 if no such block exists. */ private static int findBestFit(int[] blockSizes, int processSize) { // Initialize minDiff with an unreachable value by a difference between a blockSize and the // processSize. int minDiff = findMaxElement(blockSizes); int index = NO_ALLOCATION; // If there is no block that can fit the process, return NO_ALLOCATION as the // result. for (int i = 0; i < blockSizes.length; i++) { // Find the most fitting memory block for the given process. if (blockSizes[i] - processSize < minDiff && blockSizes[i] - processSize >= 0) { minDiff = blockSizes[i] - processSize; index = i; } } return index; } /** * Method to allocate memory to blocks according to the best fit algorithm. It should return an * ArrayList of Integers, where the index is the process ID (zero-indexed) and the value is the * block number (also zero-indexed). * * @param sizeOfBlocks: an int array that contains the sizes of the memory blocks available. * @param sizeOfProcesses: an int array that contains the sizes of the processes we need memory * blocks for. * @return the ArrayList filled with Integers repressenting the memory allocation that took place. */ static ArrayList bestFit(int[] sizeOfBlocks, int[] sizeOfProcesses) { // The array list responsible for saving the memory allocations done by the best-fit algorithm ArrayList memAlloc = new ArrayList<>(); // Do this for every process for (int processSize : sizeOfProcesses) { int chosenBlockIdx = findBestFit( sizeOfBlocks, processSize); // Find the index of the memory block going to be used memAlloc.add(chosenBlockIdx); // Store the chosen block index in the memAlloc array list if (chosenBlockIdx != NO_ALLOCATION) { // Only if a block was chosen to store the process in it, sizeOfBlocks[chosenBlockIdx] -= processSize; // resize the block based on the process size } } return memAlloc; } /** * Method to print the memory allocated. * * @param memAllocation: an ArrayList of Integer representing the memory allocation done by the * bestFit method. */ public static void printMemoryAllocation(ArrayList memAllocation) { System.out.println("Process No.\tBlock No."); System.out.println("===========\t========="); for (int i = 0; i < memAllocation.size(); i++) { System.out.print(" " + i + "\t\t"); if (memAllocation.get(i) != NO_ALLOCATION) System.out.print(memAllocation.get(i)); else System.out.print("Not Allocated"); System.out.println(); } } }