Slab AllocatorChapter 8 Slab Allocator In this chapter, the general-purpose allocator is described. It is a slab allocator which is very similar in many respects to the general kernel allocator used in Solaris [MM01]. Linux's implementation is heavily based on the first slab allocator paper by Bonwick [Bon94] with many improvements that bear a close resemblance to those described in his later paper [BA01]. We
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