site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Quinn writes:

At 20:06 -0800 30/1/06, Herbert wrote:

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P.S. Bad Apple, for moving kmem_alloc to a private place, and removing it's symbol!!!

But we give you so many other memory allocators to choose from (-:

I've did a bunch of research into kernel memory allocation over the last couple of years. I took copious notes, which I haven't had time to productise yet. I've pasted my notes into the end of this email. I hope folks find them useful.

btw I highly recommend using Graphviz to render the diagram. The resulting graph really illuminates the kernel memory allocation Big Picture (tm).

Cool diagram, but accidental line-wraps have to be fixed before using.

S+E -- Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/> Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware

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