Slab Allocator

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Slab Allocator

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What is a slab allocator? Why it is important? How can it be implemented?
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Re:Slab Allocator

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I personally don't know but I found this doc for the Linux 2.4.0 Slab Allocator: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/b/bradf/cs7001/proj2/

At a glance, it looks like a sort of advanced heap with the ability to declare certain sizes of blocks should be "cached" together for efficent allocation.
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