From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 27 13: 5:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6175F37B428; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:05:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 0CCED81D01; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:05:09 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:05:09 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Chad David Cc: Julian Elischer , Mike Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the condvar stuff. Message-ID: <20011227150508.M55891@elvis.mu.org> References: <200112271943.fBRJh0F01276@mass.dis.org> <20011227141412.G55891@elvis.mu.org> <20011227133300.A34181@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011227133300.A34181@colnta.acns.ab.ca>; from davidc@acns.ab.ca on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:33:00PM -0700 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 * Chad David [011227 14:35] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:14:12PM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > I hope to finish my slab allocator in the next couple of months > > this should collapse malloc and zalloc into a single subsystem. > > If you are willing, I would be very interested in seeing what you > have done so far, and hearing about your design. I'm holding a > Solaris kernel engineer hostage in my basement until the new year, > and it would be great to compare what you are doing with the changes > in the 5.9 allocator. Sure, a more specific version of it is already implemented by Bosko Milekic in the mbuf allocator. Here's a copy of it: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/memcache/ It don't work, but I'm pretty sure I could get it working given the time and space. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message