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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...> - 2005-09-11 20:52:14
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Julian Seward wrote: > Unlike the current manager, the list explicitly > represents free areas as that makes it easier to iterate over them, > and so it should account for *every* address in (Addr)0 through > (Addr)(-1) inclusive. > > The new manager also has the concept of a reservation segment. Such a > segment is not mapped, and so is similar to a free-space segment, but > with the difference that it will not attempt to allocate anything in > that space. Ah, those both sound very good. N |