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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andreas Kling
c58455fb63 Kernel: Tweak SlabAllocator size classes
Shrink the 52 class down to 48 since it was mostly made for Region,
and Region just shrank to 48 :^)
2019-09-27 14:25:42 +02:00
Andreas Kling
5d491fa1cd 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.
2019-09-16 10:33:27 +02:00
Andreas Kling
1c692e87a6 Kernel: Move kmalloc() into a Kernel/Heap/ directory 2019-09-16 09:01:44 +02:00