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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
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Subject: Re: SLAB stuff, and applications to current net code
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        Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
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> > I'm going to try feveriously to get the SLAB allocator integrated into
> > Linus's sources over the next two days.  For the most part my
> > incentive is so that people think about it when they design memory
> > object allocation subsystems.
> 
> Could someone post where to get more (detailed) information about
> SLAB allocators?

You can find a nice explanation on Uresh Vahalia's "Unix Internals:
The New Frontiers".  

I have also placed the Postscript paper that I got from somewere on
the net on my web page: http://luthien.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel

Miguel.