Practice - Slab Allocation
Practice Questions
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What is slab allocation?
💡 Hint: Think about how memory can be organized for specific types of objects.
Name one state a slab can be in.
💡 Hint: Consider how objects in a slab can affect its status.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What type of objects does slab allocation manage?
💡 Hint: Focus on the setup of caches.
True or False: Slab allocation can lead to internal fragmentation.
💡 Hint: Recall the definitions of internal fragmentation.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a small slab allocator that can manage three types of fixed-size objects. Describe its caches and how allocation and deallocation would work.
💡 Hint: Consider what structures are needed to handle the states of slabs.
Evaluate the potential trade-offs in implementing slab allocation versus a traditional variable-size memory allocation system.
💡 Hint: Think about performance versus memory management efficiency.
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