Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> writes:
> If the free'd regions are never subdivided, but only sit around waiting to
> be reused (mbufs are like this), then we're golden. Otherwise it gets more
> interesting.

kernel malloc operates on buckets of size power-of-two.  each page is
subdivided into buckets.  they're never subdivided.


cgd
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