From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Aug 17 9:30:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F62B37B405 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7HGU1n23108; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:30:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Andrew R. Reiter" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pool(9) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:16:36 PDT." Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: <23106.998065801@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ju lian Elischer writes: >so exactly how many kernel memory allocators do we need? > >zalloc, malloc, mbuf_alloc, kmem_alloc, bus_space_(mumble)_alloc, and now >pool (shoulkd end in 'alloc :-) >not to mention various private allocators, Yeah, zmore /usr/share/doc/papers/kernmalloc.ascii.gz is a good read. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message