Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:42:39 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thoughts about malloc(3) and threading. Message-ID: <21975.1094578959@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:17:17 PDT." <20040907101447.U67477@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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In message <20040907101447.U67477@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes: >On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <xzpllfnve4l.fsf@dwp.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= >> writes: >> >Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: >> >> So, short version of my position is: >> >> [...] >> > >> >you forgot the most important part: >> > >> >"no matter how hard you think it will be to write a good paralell >> >allocator, it will be harder than you think" >> >> Shhhh! you shouldn't have told them that yet. > >*snicker* > >Sounds like a project for a bored college student looking for a thesis. >Do you know of any references to research papers on the topic? Would some >of UMA's fundamentals apply? Sun has done some work and I belive it is basically a userland version of UMA. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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