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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator
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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?

Rob
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