RohanVDvivedi / Slabby

A slab memory allocator in C.

Slabby

Slabby is a fixed sized cache memory allocator. Based on the Slab memory allocation, designed by Bonvick.

references : His paper here and Wikipedia Article

Setup instructions

Install dependencies :

• Cutlery

Download source code :

• git clone https://github.com/RohanVDvivedi/Slabby.git

Build from source :

• cd Slabby
• make clean all

Install from the build :

• sudo make install
• Once you have installed from source, you may discard the build by make clean

Using The library

• add -lslabby -lpthread -lcutlery linker flag, while compiling your application
• do not forget to include appropriate public api headers as and when needed. this includes
  • #include<cache.h>

Instructions for uninstalling library

Uninstall :

• cd Slabby
• sudo make uninstall