> I think that is better to allocate a big piece of memory and get the n=
> odes
> from this buffer with my own memory management functions; Is this corre=
> ct?.
See the SLAB interface. It'll do that for you. Kmalloc uses SLAB so will do
similarly sane things
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Abel Muñoz Alcaraz wrote:
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> my question is about memory fragmentation when I allocate and free a lot of
> small memory pieces in a kernel module.
> Can it do a memory fragmentation problem?
> Can I solve it using 'linux/list.h' API?
Fragmentation is not r
On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, Erik Mouw wrote:
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> > Is the kernel memory fragmentation a solved problem in Linux? (I wish it).
>
> My guess is that the slab allocator solves this, but I don't know that
> much about the MM.
Linux lists implementation stores linking informations directly inside the
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:20:20PM +0100, Abel Muñoz Alcaraz wrote:
> I have a question for you; How Linux avoids the memory fragmentation in
> linked lists?
>
> Windows 9x/NT/2000 (sorry, ;-)), have specific functions (like List_Create,
> ExInitializeSListHead, ...) to create generic
> Has Linux a generic linked list management API ?
Yes - if you want to use it
> Is the kernel memory fragmentation a solved problem in Linux? (I wish =
Its not a problem you can solve without causing serious performance hits so
we don't solve it. If you want to allocate la
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