Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080104353
Filing Date: October 26, 2006
Inventors: Prashanth Madisetti
Assignee: HP
Current U.S. Classification: 711, 711/170000
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An apparatus, comprising:
a modified buddy system memory allocator that receives a request for a size of memory;
wherein the modified buddy system memory allocator identifies a plurality of contiguous, differently-sized memory blocks that are each smaller than the size of memory from the request;
wherein the modified buddy system memory allocator allocates the plurality of contiguous, differently-sized memory blocks to satisfy the request for the size of memory.
Title ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) Vol 6 Issue 1, Jan 1984
ISBN 0164-0925
Description
1984 paper describing two variants of the buddy system for memory allocation.
Title ACM TOPLAS
ISBN 0164-0925
Description
Copy of 1984 paper referenced in earlier prior art submission
Title ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) Vol 6 Issue 1, Jan 1984 (PDF)
ISBN 0164-0925
Description
See notes under previous prior art submission for this article.
