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LibC: Lazily initialize malloc chunks

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By default malloc manages memory internally in larger blocks. When
one of those blocks is added we initialize a free list by touching
each of the new block's pages, thereby committing all that memory
upfront.

This changes malloc to build the free list on demand which as a
bonus also distributes the latency hit for new blocks more evenly
because the page faults for the zero pages now don't happen all at
once.
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Gunnar Beutner 2021-05-05 05:02:36 +02:00 • committed by Andreas Kling
parent 3aaffa2c47
commit 3438829431
2 changed files with 7 additions and 9 deletions
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Userland/Libraries/LibC/mallocdefs.h
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@ -57,18 +57,11 @@ struct ChunkedBlock
m_magic = MAGIC_PAGE_HEADER;
m_size = bytes_per_chunk;
m_free_chunks = chunk_capacity();
m_freelist = (FreelistEntry*)chunk(0);
for (size_t i = 0; i < chunk_capacity(); ++i) {
auto* entry = (FreelistEntry*)chunk(i);
if (i != chunk_capacity() - 1)
entry->next = (FreelistEntry*)chunk(i + 1);
else
entry->next = nullptr;
}
}
ChunkedBlock* m_prev { nullptr };
ChunkedBlock* m_next { nullptr };
size_t m_next_lazy_freelist_index { 0 };
FreelistEntry* m_freelist { nullptr };
size_t m_free_chunks { 0 };
[[gnu::aligned(8)]] unsigned char m_slot[0];