Re: Better performance with 2.6
From: Darren Williams
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 17:12:43 EST
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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