Allocators

• TLSF - The Two-Level Segregate Fit allocator from the Industrial Informatics and Real-Time Systems Group
  • Paper list - Check out 2008's "A constant-time dynamic storage allocator for real-time systems"

Slab

• Jeff Bonwick's classic 1994 creation, first published in the context of the SunOS 5.4 kernel

Linux kernel variants

• SLUB (Christoph Lameter, 2007) reduced the size of the slab object queue and improved scalability for many processors (LKML)
• SLQB (Nick Piggin, 2008)
• SLOB (LKML)
• Differences between SL*Bs