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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:30:01 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pool(9) 
Message-ID:  <23106.998065801@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:16:36 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108170914530.22899-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108170914530.22899-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
lian Elischer writes:
>so exactly how many kernel memory allocators do we need?
>
>zalloc, malloc, mbuf_alloc, kmem_alloc, bus_space_(mumble)_alloc, and now
>pool (shoulkd end in 'alloc :-)
>not to mention various private allocators,

Yeah,

	zmore /usr/share/doc/papers/kernmalloc.ascii.gz

is a good read.

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