Re: The Slab Allocator (Was: Re: New dcache not using slab allocator?)
Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
5 Aug 1997 22:03:36 +0200
Mark Hemment <markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk> writes:
> [ SLAB vs. SIMP ]
>
> I feel that a light, fast, front-end to the SLAB is the correct solution
> - there should not be two memory allocators in the kernel.
>
I hate to say "me too", but... IMHO, Mark is right.
Allocating stuff in blocks of four pages simply won't work in Real Life.
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Matthias Urlichs
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