Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:08:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hsu@freefall.freebsd.org (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: kneel@ishiboo.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible projects? Message-ID: <199701262108.OAA02284@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701260732.XAA23320@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Jan 25, 97 11:32:57 pm
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> You could try converting the kernel memory allocator to a slab > allocator. See the Unix Frontiers books for more details and > ideas for other projects. Please see my other posting. I know it isn't a pure SLAB allocator, but the interface is we use is a SLAB interface. Also, there are many cases where a pure SLAB allocator is a very, very bad idea. Using an impure allocator could win 1.1 times performance over a SLAB allocator in the up case, and 100 to 1000 time performance in the MP case. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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