Re: Regarding slab.c

From: Pat Orourke (orourke@missioncriticallinux.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 09:54:26 EST

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Gaurav Yadav wrote:

> Is there some site from where I can read it, or somebody can tell me.
> Any suggestions welcomed.

If you're a member of USENIX you can look at a paper on the slab allocator at:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/bonwick.html

It is also described in the following book (from the comments in slab.c):

> /*
> * An implementation of the Slab Allocator as described in outline in;
> * UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia
> * Pub: Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-101908-2
> * or with a little more detail in;
> * The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator
> * Jeff Bonwick (Sun Microsystems).
> * Presented at: USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference
> */

-- Patrick O'Rourke orourke@missioncriticallinux.com

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