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<Integer> bestFit(int[] sizeOfBlocks, int[] sizeOfProcesses) {
// The array list responsible for saving the memory allocations done by the best-fit algorithm
ArrayList<Integer> 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<Integer> 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();
}
}
}