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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2013-07-10 23:39:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2013-07-10 23:39:29 +0200 |
| commit | 9667351422dec0ca40a784a08dec7ce128482aba (patch) | |
| tree | 190b5d17cb81366ae66efcf551d9491df194b877 /microkernel/mach/gnumach/memory_management.mdwn | |
| parent | b8f6fb64171e205c9d4b4a5394e6af0baaf802dc (diff) | |
IRC.
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diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/memory_management.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/memory_management.mdwn index 4e237269..477f0a18 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/memory_management.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/memory_management.mdwn @@ -188,3 +188,18 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] patch <braunr> (more kernel memory, thus more physical memory - up to 1.8 GiB - but then, less user memory) + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-06-06 + + <nlightnfotis> braunr: quick question, what memory allocation algorithms + does the Mach use? I know it uses slab allocation, so I can guess buddy + allocators too? + <braunr> no + <braunr> slab allocator for kernel memory (allocation of buffers used by + the kernel itself) + <braunr> a simple freelist for physical pages + <braunr> and a custom allocator based on a red-black tree, a linked list + and a hint for virtual memory + <braunr> (which is practically the same in all BSD variants) + <braunr> and linux does something very close too |