On Thu, 9 May 2013, Dave Hansen wrote: > BTW, I really like the 'magazine' name. It's not frequently used in > this kind of context and it conjures up a nice mental image whether it > be of stacks of periodicals or firearm ammunition clips.
The term "magazine" was prominently used in the Bonwick article that was the base of the creation of the SLAB allocator. http://static.usenix.org/event/usenix01/full_papers/bonwick/bonwick.pdf http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/bonwick.a -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
