VMEM(9)

NAME
vmem - virtual memory allocator

DESCRIPTION
The vmem is a general purpose resource allocator. Despite its name, it can be used for arbitrary resources other than virtual memory.

CODE REFERENCES
This section describes places within the NetBSD source tree where actual code implementing the vmem subsystem can be found. All pathnames are relative to /usr/src.

The vmem subsystem is implemented within the file sys/kern/subr_vmem.c.

SEE ALSO
intro(9), memoryallocators(9), vmem_alloc(9), vmem_create(9), vmem_destroy(9), vmem_free(9), vmem_xalloc(9), vmem_xfree(9) Jeff Bonwick, Jonathan Adams, Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs and Arbitrary Resources, 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2001.

AUTHORS
This implementation of vmem was written by YAMAMOTO Takashi.