Re: Regarding slab.c

From: Jim Garlick (garlick@llnl.gov)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 11:28:34 EST


I am not sure if the linux slab allocator differs from the Solaris one in
any significant way, but there is a writeup on the latter in Vahalia's
"UNIX Internals, the New Frontiers" (sec 12.10) and it references a 1994
paper by Bonwick:

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

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Hope that helps,

Jim Garlick

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Gaurav Yadav wrote:

> Hi All,
> I am reading the source code of kernel(newbie). I was
> not able to get the abilities of /mm/slab.c. I was not able to
> understand the work of kmem_cache_init(memory_start, memory_end) and
> kmem_cache_sizes_init() called from main.c.
> I know, I do not know the concept of 'slab'. I tried to find it and got
> "group of pixel of same color and on the same line",
> I am not convinced with it.
> Is there some site from where I can read it, or somebody can tell me.
> Any suggestions welcomed.
>
> - GAURAV.
>
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