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Recent huge allocation refactoring associates huge allocations with arenas, but it remains necessary to quickly look up huge allocation metadata during reallocation/deallocation. A global radix tree remains a good solution to this problem, but locking would have become the primary bottleneck after (upcoming) migration of chunk management from global to per arena data structures. This lock-free implementation uses double-checked reads to traverse the tree, so that in the steady state, each read or write requires only a single atomic operation. This implementation also assures that no more than two tree levels actually exist, through a combination of careful virtual memory allocation which makes large sparse nodes cheap, and skipping the root node on x64 (possible because the top 16 bits are all 0 in practice). |
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jemalloc.pc.in | ||
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README |
jemalloc is a general purpose malloc(3) implementation that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support. jemalloc first came into use as the FreeBSD libc allocator in 2005, and since then it has found its way into numerous applications that rely on its predictable behavior. In 2010 jemalloc development efforts broadened to include developer support features such as heap profiling, Valgrind integration, and extensive monitoring/tuning hooks. Modern jemalloc releases continue to be integrated back into FreeBSD, and therefore versatility remains critical. Ongoing development efforts trend toward making jemalloc among the best allocators for a broad range of demanding applications, and eliminating/mitigating weaknesses that have practical repercussions for real world applications. The COPYING file contains copyright and licensing information. The INSTALL file contains information on how to configure, build, and install jemalloc. The ChangeLog file contains a brief summary of changes for each release. URL: http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/