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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2016-02-17 21:17:38 +0100
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2016-02-23 12:13:42 +0100
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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?
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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml5
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>