Subj : [$] What's next for the SLUB allocator
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon May 20 2024 19:30:06

[$] What's next for the SLUB allocator

Date:
Mon, 20 May 2024 18:28:56 +0000

Description:
There are two fundamental levels of memory allocator in the Linux kernel:
the page allocator, which allocates memory in units of pages, and the slab
allocator, which allocates arbitrarily-sized chunks that are usually (but
not necessarily) smaller than a page.  The slab allocator is the one that
stands behind commonly used kernel functions like kmalloc() .  At
the 2024 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit , slab maintainer
Vlastimil Babka provided an update on recent changes at the slab level and
discussed the changes that are yet to come.

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