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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-02-17 21:17:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-02-23 12:13:42 +0100 |
| commit | db241c69cef8774b9b7afa7e0f0f8dbdcf528a07 (patch) | |
| tree | 09b7b14ca524ea3fe14573f209ee222fb2b51820 /erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml | |
| parent | 8dbd8cb1fd7fe2fbe9f29fd5acf314f4cfe70895 (diff) | |
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erts: Make literal_alloc documented and configurable
Except it cannot be disabled and cannot be multi-threaded.
The bit-vector 'erts_literal_vspace_map' on 32-bit is currently only
protected by the literal allocator mutex. We could allow multiple
instances on 64-bit (I think), but what would be the point?
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml index 15b78ffa10..75de74523e 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ <item>Allocator used for ETS data.</item> <tag><c>driver_alloc</c></tag> <item>Allocator used for driver data.</item> + <tag><c>literal_alloc</c></tag> + <item>Allocator used for constant terms in Erlang code.</item> <tag><c>sl_alloc</c></tag> <item>Allocator used for memory blocks that are expected to be short-lived.</item> @@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ instead of creating new segments. This in order to reduce the number of system calls made.</item> </taglist> - <p><c>sys_alloc</c> is always enabled and + <p><c>sys_alloc</c> and <c>literal_alloc</c> are always enabled and cannot be disabled. <c>mseg_alloc</c> is always enabled if it is available and an allocator that uses it is enabled. All other allocators can be <seealso marker="#M_e">enabled or disabled</seealso>. @@ -246,6 +248,7 @@ the currently present allocators:</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item><c>B: binary_alloc</c></item> + <item><c>I: literal_alloc</c></item> <item><c>D: std_alloc</c></item> <item><c>E: ets_alloc</c></item> <item><c>F: fix_alloc</c></item> |