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Kernel: Add a simple slab allocator for small allocations

This is a freelist allocator with static size classes that works as a
complement to the generic kmalloc(). It's a lot faster than kmalloc()
since allocation just means popping from the freelist.

It's also significantly more compact when there are a lot of objects
smaller than the minimum kmalloc chunk size (32 bytes.)

This patch enables it for the Region and PhysicalPage classes.
In the PhysicalPage (8 bytes) case, it's a huge improvement since we
no longer waste 75% of the storage allocated.

There are also a number of ways this can be improved, so let's keep
working on it going forward.
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Andreas Kling 2019-09-16 10:19:44 +02:00
parent 1c692e87a6
commit 5d491fa1cd
7 changed files with 150 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ include ../Makefile.common
KERNEL_OBJS = \
init.o \
Heap/kmalloc.o \
Heap/SlabAllocator.o \
StdLib.o \
Lock.o \
Arch/i386/CPU.o \