Re: Freeing boot memory

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:17:37PM -0300, Leandro Motta Barros wrote:
> Well, the questions concern the boot memory allocator. To be more precise, 
> We're interested in the memory deallocation routines. We have seen that it is 
> only possible to free full pages. So, theoretically, if we make several 
> allocations smaller than one page, we will not be able to actually free this 
> memory. I just don't know of this kind of situation happens in real life. Do 
> we currently have some pages of memory "wasted" because the boot memory 
> allocator was not able to free small allocations? Is there any estimate (or 
> benchmark or whatever) on the number of pages that could be freed but are 
> not?

When I rewrote this, I got crapped on. I highly doubt anyone will
listen this time, either.


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