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  • Author(s): Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
  • Date: 2012-11-28 14:38:35 UTC
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To achieve these goals, the slice allocator uses a sophisticated,
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layered design that has been inspired by Bonwick's slab allocator
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<a href="#ftn.idp11399520" class="footnote"><sup class="footnote"><a name="idp11399520"></a>[1]</sup></a>.
 
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<a href="#ftn.idp7648048" class="footnote"><sup class="footnote"><a name="idp7648048"></a>[1]</sup></a>.
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It uses <code class="function">posix_memalign()</code> to optimize allocations of many equally-sized
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chunks, and has per-thread free lists (the so-called magazine layer)
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to quickly satisfy allocation requests of already known structure sizes.
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<a name="idp10428592"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 8. Using the slice allocator</b></p>
 
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<a class="ulink" href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bonwick94slab.html" target="_top">[Bonwick94]</a> Jeff Bonwick, The slab allocator: An object-caching kernel
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memory allocator. USENIX 1994, and
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<a class="ulink" href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bonwick01magazines.html" target="_top">[Bonwick01]</a> Bonwick and Jonathan Adams, Magazines and vmem: Extending the