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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:05:09 -0600
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: the condvar stuff.
Message-ID:  <20011227150508.M55891@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011227133300.A34181@colnta.acns.ab.ca>; from davidc@acns.ab.ca on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:33:00PM -0700
References:  <200112271943.fBRJh0F01276@mass.dis.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112271135510.84622-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20011227141412.G55891@elvis.mu.org> <20011227133300.A34181@colnta.acns.ab.ca>

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* Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> [011227 14:35] wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:14:12PM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > I hope to finish my slab allocator in the next couple of months
> > this should collapse malloc and zalloc into a single subsystem.
> 
> If you are willing, I would be very interested in seeing what you
> have done so far, and hearing about your design.  I'm holding a
> Solaris kernel engineer hostage in my basement until the new year,
> and it would be great to compare what you are doing with the changes
> in the 5.9 allocator.

Sure, a more specific version of it is already implemented by
Bosko Milekic in the mbuf allocator.

Here's a copy of it:
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/memcache/

It don't work, but I'm pretty sure I could get it working given
the time and space.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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