Re: kernel malloc usage

2004-12-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:39:27AM +0300, Kenny Chamber wrote: > I have a question concerning the use of malloc to allocate small amounts > of memory for packet wrappers for certain packets. > Basically, I'm using malloc in much the same way as one would use it in > a standard userland program: all

Re: kernel malloc usage

2003-11-03 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:51:58AM +0100, Gerald Heinig wrote: > Is this true? I seem to remember that FreeBSD has a slab allocator, > which IIRC is particularly good at allocating small chunks. You don't specify which version of the kernel you're programming to; so I'll assume 5.x. If your alloc