Slab Allocator
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:28 am
What is a slab allocator? Why it is important? How can it be implemented?
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.