Re: RFC: Slab-o-rama (after Rene's suggestion)

"Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 3) a hard part of the slab allocator is the backend, as it has to 
> work 
> directly on the VM, and yet, it shouldn't collect too many areas

Oh, I left out a few things here:
you'll have to solve many circular dependencies (especially during 
bootstrapping code); ie. creating an area needs memory for some 
structures, too, and you'll also need memory for the slab structures as 
well.
If you want to tackle this, have a look at the FreeBSD implementation 
(sys/vm/uma_core.c) - I think they solved those issues in a nice way.

Bye,
   Axel.


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