Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator | Date | Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:51:54 -0600 |
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On Tuesday 01 November 2005 12:33, Matt Mackall wrote: > SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer, > similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced. > It's signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient. But like > all similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from > fragmentation more than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small > systems.
Just to clarify: define "small". My current laptop has half a gigabyte of ram. (Yeah, I broke down and bought a real machine, and even kept a World of Warcraft partition this time...)
Does small mean "this is better for laptops with < 4gig"? In which case, possibly this should be tied to CONFIG_HIGHMEM or some such?
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