Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261792AbUCBXrN (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:47:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261783AbUCBXrN (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:47:13 -0500 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]:7613 "EHLO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261793AbUCBXrH (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:47:07 -0500 Message-ID: <40451CE6.8020708@matchmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:46:46 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Williams CC: albhaf , LKML Subject: Re: Better performance with 2.6 References: <1078229894.53b994c0albhaf@home.se> <20040302221025.GA18011@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> In-Reply-To: <20040302221025.GA18011@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 533 Lines: 17 Darren Williams wrote: > 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 Slab is in the 2.4 kernel also... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/