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From: Darren Williams <dsw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: albhaf <albhaf@home.se>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:10:25 +1100
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Subject: Re: Better performance with 2.6
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Hi albhaf

Look at the slab allocator, this is a cache
for commonly used objects in the kernel.

For more info see the original document:
The Slab Allocator:
An object caching kernel memory allocator
Jeff Bonwick

and

mm/slab.c

A quick google should turn up the correct paper.

Darren

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004, albhaf wrote:

> I know that 2.6 has the ability to get better
> performance than the other versions.
> But what parts of the kernel has provided to this
> performance upgrade?
> 
> /albhaf
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