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DISCUSSION Jeff Garzik 3 participants 4 messages Oct 7, 1999 – Oct 8, 1999 Memory management

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Has anybody done any coding, or additional thought, towards a zone allocator?

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Quoted 2 lines · Jeff Garzik

Has anybody done any coding, or additional thought, towards a zone allocator?

People have been thinking about it a lot, but we haven't gotten around to coding one. If all goes well, however, I'll have quite a bit more time for kernel work from december onwards...

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Quoted 2 lines · Jeff Garzik

Has anybody done any coding, or additional thought, towards a zone allocator?

Rik van Riel has some though on this:
http://www.linux.eu.org/~riel/zone-alloc.html

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Quoted 2 lines · Jeff Garzik

Has anybody done any coding, or additional thought, towards a zone allocator?

Rik van Riel has some though on this:
http://www.linux.eu.org/~riel/zone-alloc.html

I have to point out that the ideas on that page are outdated.

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From december onwards I hope to get working on these things

again...

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