From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ext1.nea-fast.com (ext1.nea-fast.com [208.241.120.230]) by int2.nea-fast.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15539 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:09:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (adsl-77-228-233.atl.bellsouth.net [216.77.228.233]) by ext1.nea-fast.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12233 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:13:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <38010EAB.ACC45162@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:09:47 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: simple slab alloc question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: kmalloc seems to allocate against various kmem_cache sizes: 32, 64...1024...65536... Does this mean that allocations of various sizes are stored in different "buckets"? Would that not reduce fragmentation and the need for a zone allocator? Enlightenment from MM gurus appreciated :) Regards, Jeff -- Custom driver development | Never worry about theory as long Open source programming | as the machinery does what it's | supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/