01-22-2008
Not sure I follow you... more efficient than what? It sounds like you're still trying to compare slabs to zones. (That's like comparing TCP to ethernet.) But yes, slabs are efficient and tend to result in less fragmentation. However that "unused pages..." comment is off the mark. A freed slab tends to stay in its cache ready to be allocated again. Please read the book...I don't want to type the whole thing in. When you do, skip to page 329 "Interfacing the Slab Allocator with the Zoned Page Frame Allocator".
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