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Re: The direction of malloc?


On 12/10/2013 08:48 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 07:59:51AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> This was done in the past to sync with Doug Lea's malloc implementation.
>>
>> Our malloc seems to be based on version 2.7 but 2.8.6 is current (see
>> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/) - and Wolfram had a ptmalloc v3 on his
>> homepage (http://www.malloc.de/en/) that seems not to have been
>> integrated with glibc.
>>
>> So, going to ptmalloc3 is an option to consider as well...
>>
>> Since Wolfram seems not anymore interested with glibc (I've copied him
>> on this email so that he could chime in), we can just go forward.
>>
>> Before changing the code massively, I suggest to discuss whether we stay
>> with ptmalloc2 or move to ptmalloc3. If we do the later, it might be
>> better to do the overhaul after the update.
>>
>> Summing up: Yes, we own it and should adopt it - but let's not make our
>> life harder if possible,
> 
> From a quick look through ptmalloc3, I don't think merging ptmalloc3
> changes is going to be any easier before making any changes to our
> malloc.  Our code base seems to have diverged enough (with multiple
> arenas, per-thread arenas, dynamic thresholds, hooks, probes, etc.) to
> make it very different from ptmalloc.  I definitely see merit in
> looking for stuff in ptmalloc3 that we can use, but given the current
> complexity of that task, I don't think it makes sense to have it hold
> up cleanups.

Thanks for the evaluation - in that case, let's do cleanups ;)

Andreas
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