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Date:      Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:30:38 -0400
From:      Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thread aware malloc
Message-ID:  <20050413213038.GA9991@crodrigues.org>
In-Reply-To: <425D8546.2050306@he.iki.fi>
References:  <425D8546.2050306@he.iki.fi>

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:47:02PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> 
> Is somebody already working on thread-optimizing malloc to have less 
> contention, avoid false sharing issues, etc.?

Niall Douglas mentioned that FreeBSD might want to look at ptmalloc2
which is used in Linux:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2005-February/002848.html

but I don't know if anyone is actively looking at this for FreeBSD.

-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
rodrigc@crodrigues.org



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