There's a Usenix paper about it, see the comments in mm/slab.c for exact details.
Hi guys.... this is the paper in question... http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/8756/http:zSzzSzluthien.nuclecu.unam.mxzSz~miguelzSzbonwick.pdf/bonwick94slab.pdf ciao rahul -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
