On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 11:57:01PM +0900, Atsushi Onoe wrote:

 > Hmm.  Is it still possible this technic is used for malloc()?
 > I remember I've changed all malloc() whose size is less than or equal to
 > page size returns KSEG0 address instead of KSEG2 address, and the
 > performance for compiling kernel was improved over 10% at the SVR4
 > for MIPS cpu.

That sounds like a cool idea, but our kernel malloc would need to be
seriously reworked to handle that (bucket size is determined by address
of the object).

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