On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:08:07PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > David Schultz wrote this message on Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:04 -0500: > > Right, databases, language runtimes, and the small set of other > > applications for which it really matters usually have their own > > special-purpose allocators. I was counting on that when I said > > that replacing malloc() is unlikely to make a big difference. > > (One could argue, of course, that it's unfortunate that > > applications need to do so.) > > Hmmm, maybe we should bring the zone API into userland? :) It'd be > nice to have some of the features, like the ctor/dtor's...
Why not just make UMA the userland implementation, too? It should only cost us one kernel trap instruction per allocation/deallocation operation. With fine-grained kernel locking, why we wouldn't want to trust the same code to both tasks, and possibly optimize more because it can do that? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
