Talk:Slab allocation

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[edit] How much of this article is accurate?

My issues with this article start at the first sentence; in contrast to the article claiming that slab allocation is to reduce internal memory fragmentation, Bonwick94 emphasizes that memory allocation needs to be fast. Furthermore, the implementation section is not only leenookcentric but also misleading; "pure" slab allocation does not imply specialist allocation of mutexen et al. It is also stated that allocation is a kernel function with kernel objects; on unix systems, save for intra-kernel allocation (which isn't visible to processes), memory allocation is done in libc, not the kernel. It doesn't get much better. All in all - I think I'm gonna slap template:cleanup-rewrite on here; if I have copious spare time soon (ha!) I may end up doing so myself. --moof (talk) 18:27, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

This article seems to tell that Linux is the only OS kernel in the world. All this stuff about bufctls, distinction between small and large slabs, and, first of all "Both the slab allocation algorithm and buddy memory allocation occur in kernel memory-allocation." are quite pointless for a general point of view. But I'm afraid the article would vanish if Linux specific things are removed. SalvoIsaja (talk) 13:01, 7 March 2008 (UTC)