Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:17:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thoughts about malloc(3) and threading. Message-ID: <20040907101447.U67477@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <47444.1094470317@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <47444.1094470317@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <xzpllfnve4l.fsf@dwp.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= > writes: > >Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > >> So, short version of my position is: > >> [...] > > > >you forgot the most important part: > > > >"no matter how hard you think it will be to write a good paralell > >allocator, it will be harder than you think" > > Shhhh! you shouldn't have told them that yet. *snicker* Sounds like a project for a bored college student looking for a thesis. Do you know of any references to research papers on the topic? Would some of UMA's fundamentals apply? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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