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Maria Matejka 6cd3771378 Multipage allocation
We can also quite simply allocate bigger blocks. Anyway, we need these
blocks to be aligned to their size which needs one mmap() two times
bigger and then two munmap()s returning the unaligned parts.

The user can specify -B <N> on startup when <N> is the exponent of 2,
setting the block size to 2^N. On most systems, N is 12, anyway if you
know that your configuration is going to eat gigabytes of RAM, you are
almost forced to raise your block size as you may easily get into memory
fragmentation issues or you have to raise your maximum mapping count,
e.g. "sysctl vm.max_map_count=(number)".
2021-10-13 19:01:22 +02:00
Maria Matejka 7f0e598208 Bound allocated pages to resource pools with page caches to avoid unnecessary syscalls 2021-09-10 18:13:50 +02:00
Maria Matejka 886dd92eee Slab: head now uses bitmask for used/free nodes info instead of lists
From now, there are no auxiliary pointers stored in the free slab nodes.
This led to strange debugging problems if use-after-free happened in
slab-allocated structures, especially if the structure's first member is
a next pointer.

This also reduces the memory needed by 1 pointer per allocated object.
OTOH, we now rely on pages being aligned to their size's multiple, which
is quite common anyway.
2021-03-25 16:47:48 +01:00