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    SubjectRe: Ideas for v2.1
    Larry McVoy wrote:
    > Is the slab allocator the thing that Bonwick did and wrote up?

    Yes it is. I wrote my original implementation from a description
    in "Unix Internals: The New Frontiers" (sorry, can't remember
    author of the book).
    I'm not a member of USENIX, so thought I couldn't get a copy of
    Bonwick's paper (wasn't on Sun's site either).
    I found it last week, on a database in NZ, but haven't had chance
    to read it.
    My computer and I are a 'distance' apart at the moment. When we
    are re-united (hopefully, this weekend), I'll place the code on
    an ftp server somewhere - a patch against 2.0.0.

    BTW: The two major users of objects in the kernel seem to be inodes
    and buffer headers. Linus has (of course) done a v. good job of
    implementing the allocation for these objects, so to use the
    slab allocator for these seems pointless. Oh, well...

    markhe


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