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This is also discussed in section 4 of Jeff Bonwick s 1994 paper "The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator".
by dgwynne 9y ago
This is also discussed in section 4 of Jeff Bonwick
s 1994 paper "The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator".
- twoodfin 9y agobcantrill (who worked with Bonwick @ Sun) is always touting that paper as a classic of systems research. I finally gave in and bought a copy of the proceedings from Usenix where it was presented. Probably the best paper in a first-rate class of them.
- bcantrill 9y agoAnd if you really want to see me tout it, check out my Systems We Love talk on the slab allocator![1] ;) [1] https://systemswe.love/videos/down-memory-lane https://systemswe.love/videos/down-memory-lane