Crate slabmalloc

A slab allocator implementation for objects less than 8KiB.

Overview

The organization is as follows:

• A ZoneAllocator manages many SCAllocator and can satisfy requests for different allocation sizes.
• A SCAllocator allocates objects of exactly one size. It stores the objects and meta-data in one or multiple AllocablePage objects.
• A trait AllocablePage that defines the page-type from which we allocate objects.

Lastly, it provides a default AllocablePage implementations ObjectPage8k that is 8 KiB in size and contains allocated objects and associated meta-data

Structs

• MappedPages8k
  A wrapper type around MappedPages which ensures that the MappedPages have a size and alignment of 8 KiB and are writable.
• ObjectPage8k
  Holds allocated data within 2 4-KiB pages.
• Rawlink
  Rawlink is a type like Option<T> but for holding a raw pointer.
• ZoneAllocator
  A zone allocator for arbitrary sized allocations.

Traits

• AllocablePage
  This trait is used to define a page from which objects are allocated in an SCAllocator.