Messages in this thread |  | | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: A question about memory fragmentation | Date | Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:58:26 +0100 |
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On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, Erik Mouw wrote: > > > Is the kernel memory fragmentation a solved problem in Linux? (I wish it). > > My guess is that the slab allocator solves this, but I don't know that > much about the MM.
Linux lists implementation stores linking informations directly inside the block of data We're going to link. This has the advantage that no extra list nodes are allocated to store the data pointer but has the drawback that if We've to link the same data to more than one list We've to declare more than one listhead. See at the different links We've inside the task_struct for example.
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