Re: Status of Linux on sun4c?

Kenneth Johansson (erakeon@kieray1.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:34:37 +0200


Alan Cox wrote:

> > because of the tremendous speedup I get with the dcache. Apart from the
> > generic changes such as the dcache, are there significant SPARC-specific
> > changes in the development kernels so that they're much better?
>
> SLAB based memory allocation
>

What dose SLAB stand for? And what was used before?

Any pointers on where I can find out more about memory algorithms.

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