Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:58:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>, Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: malloc_bucket() idea (was Re: How to fix malloc.) Message-ID: <3C78AB18.B30A8D6E@mindspring.com> References: <200201051752.g05Hq3gG074525@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <XFMail.020114020307.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200201241022.g0OAMISM093913@faber.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20020124024534.V13686@elvis.mu.org> <200202131739.g1DHdZT5023794@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202190945.g1J9j9kg076110@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202232051.g1NKpE741310@apollo.backplane.com> <20020223211449.GJ80761@elvis.mu.org> <200202232243.g1NMhZP49110@apollo.backplane.com> <20020223182947.A35990@locore.ca>
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Jake Burkholder wrote: > Jeff Roberson (jeff@) has been working on a slab allocator that goes > a long way to making malloc(), free() and the zone allocator not require > giant. I've reviewed what he's got so far and it looks pretty damn good > to me, I'll see about getting him to post it. He's working on adding the > per-cpu queues now. A design like this resolves my objection to the pure SLAB allocator; Vahalia suggests this as a potential enhancment in his book, and the authors of the SLAB allocator mention it in their second paper (~1996/1997). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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