Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 23:57:47 +1100 (EST) From: proff@suburbia.net To: dg@root.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SLAB stuff, and applications to current net code (fwd) Message-ID: <19970126125747.19508.qmail@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <199701261235.EAA06772@root.com> from David Greenman at "Jan 26, 97 04:35:36 am"
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> >I not sure how much benefit the SLAB allocator would offer over what we > >have. There's some extra overhead in maintaining a SLAB. > > > >BTW, SLAB is used in Solaris. > > 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. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > I presume the idea is that the cache efficiency of small allocations would be substantially improved? Cheers, Julian <proff@iq.org>
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