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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:15:45 +0200
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Makes sense.  It would be nice to get this confirmed in 
> targetted testing ;)
 >
Not yet done.

The right way to test it would be to collect data in kernel about 
alloc/free, and then run that data against both versions, and check 
which version gives less internal fragmentation.

Or perhaps Bonwick has done that for his slab paper, but I don't have it :-(

* 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


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	Manfred


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