Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:18:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, proff@suburbia.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SLAB stuff, and applications to current net code (fwd) Message-ID: <199701262118.OAA02324@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701261235.EAA06772@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jan 26, 97 04:35:36 am
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> The allocator in BSD is designed to be as fast as possible and trades > space efficiency for performance. I'm very skeptical that a SLAB allocator > would be any faster than the current allocation algorithm, although it > would likely be more space efficient. Are you looking at the TLB overhead for SLAB? Technically, the FreeBSD allocator meets the interface criteria for SLAB, though it's not SLAB (as you point out, it's not type-stable). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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