Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Big Speed-Up: ~268s to ~50ms
23 points
1/21/1970
20 hours ago
by Bender
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ruslan
Can someone please tell why Linux kernel needs this "early" memory allocator and what happens when kernel switches to standard allocator ? From what I know FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) has Universal Memory Allocator (UMA) that is used for everything.
Can someone please tell why Linux kernel needs this "early" memory allocator and what happens when kernel switches to standard allocator ? From what I know FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) has Universal Memory Allocator (UMA) that is used for everything.