On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:28:06 +0100 Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi! > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 06:14:03PM +0300, Серафим Долбилов wrote: > > > > A new portion of questions is ready:) > > 1. dlmalloc or tlsf - what are pros and cons of each of them? > > Looking at the history I could see that dlmalloc was present since barebox > was forked from U-boot. So and old implmentation. > > Later tlsf was added, wihtout any explanation why. > But based on the fact that Jean (who added tlsf) did is when we already > had dlmalloc I tentatively conclude that tlsf is the better alternative. > And I can see line of code is less than dlmalloc too - so maybe it is even smaller. > I would go for tlsf based on the above and not botheting about this anymore. Please see this Sascha's comment on tlsf: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2011-December/005288.html At the moment we use tlsf2 in barebox. Please note that there is more recent tlsf3 at github: https://github.com/mattconte/tlsf -- Best regards, Antony Pavlov _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
