Re: big allocs in kernel heap

On 2007-09-06 at 21:00:07 [+0200], François Revol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I got annoyed by those big unfreeable allocations (that also paniced in
> realloc (I know, according to Travis realloc() shouldn't even be in the
> kernel)), so I made a little workaround. It's likely slow as hell but
> should work at least.
> Comments ?
> Is a replacement planned for some year in the future ? :)

Hugo already implemented a slab allocator. And the intention is to use it 
as backend for the kernel memory allocator.

CU, Ingo

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