Re: Lookaside list or ExAllocatePool/ExFreePool

On 16 Jan 2006 05:51:34 -0800, "Bajamani" <bajamani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Article: http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=172
>says using Lookaside list is no better than just calling
>ExAllocatePool/ExFreePool.
>this article dates back to 31-Oct-02. does it still holds true?


Haven't read the article but my own experience is that for some
drivers, especially ones that do repeated high volume
allocation/deallocation of fixed size objects in multiple threads, the
win from lookaside lists is quite large.


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