Re: kernel memory allocators

[Allen Briggs <briggs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:35:17PM +0100, Lars Heidieker wrote:
> I have got the kmem reworked to be based on the pool allocator
> directly with different sized caches, backed by the kmem map making
> it's allocations interrupt save, I replaced the malloc with just a
> thin wrapper to use the reworked kmem.... system is up and stable.

What are the benefits that you expect to see from doing this work?
Have you measured to see if those benefits are realized?

Do you have your changes available for review?

-allen

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