Re: ap_pool support for shared memory?

["Ralf S. Engelschall" <rs...@engelschall.com>]

In article <Pi...@koj.rkbloom.net> you wrote:
> 
>> > We looked at re-vamping our memory allocation model at the beginning of
>> > 2.0, and we never really came to a good conclusion of how to do it
>> > right.  If you want to submit I patch, I will answer any questions that I
>> > can to help.
>> 
>> Thanks.  I don't have a patch ready yet, but wanted some feedback on
>> whether such a change would possibly be accepted back into the
>> codebase.
> 
> I think a patch would be VERY welcome.  I would suggest that you look at
> the archives from about February of last year.  You could try the hypermail
> archives.  Look for the thread on which Dean was talking about using pools
> to simulate malloc and shared memory allocation.  I can't remember the
> thread subject, but it was around February of last year I think.

Look also at mod_ssl's original EAPI. It contains patches to alloc.c which
allow one to place an Apache pool inside a shared memory segment. Then one can
use all ap_pxxx() functions on it.
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com