/lrmichael

Alternative implemention the lock-free memory allocator described in "Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory Allocation", by Maged M. Michael

Primary LanguageC++MIT LicenseMIT

Introduction

lrmichael is a malloc(3) implemention of the lock-free memory allocator described in Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory Allocation, by Maged M. Michael.

This implementation uses 2MB superblocks, and keeps block metadata per page in a seperate component instead of using boundary tags, achieving some allocator/user memory segregation.

Usage

To compile, just download this repository and run

make

If successfully compiled, you can link lrmichael with your application at compile time with

-llrmichael

or you can dynamically link it with your application by using LD_PRELOAD (if your application was not statically linked with another memory allocator).

LD_PRELOAD=lrmichael.so ./your_application

Copyright

Licence: MIT

Read file COPYING.