full/empty terminology in _malloc.h

[James Cook]

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 03:05:26PM -0900, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> The comments are indeed confusing.  The full and empty fields in the
> structure refer to the state of the fobjs[] array.  So full means that
> nothing is allocated out of the slab and that the slab can be freed.  And
> empty means that everything is allocated out of the slab and there are no
> objects left to allocate from that slab.
> 
> The other comments are somewhat stale and talked about prior iterations of
> the code for the most part.  For example, I originally intended to make
> 'active' and 'alternate' a list, but ultimately chose to make them single
> entities.  'partial', 'full', and 'empty' are lists of slabs.  I'll do a
> pass to clean up the comments.
> 
> By the way, we still have a fragmentation problem :-(.  Its not as bad as
> it was before, but it is still there.  At least with kmalloc_obj being
> per-zone, things like tmpfs which allocate zones for each mount can
> completely recover the related memory on umount (which helps dsynth out a
> lot).
> 
> -Matt

Thanks for the documentation update; much less confusing!

-- 
James