Features

O(1) cost for malloc, free, realloc, memalign Extremely low overhead per allocation (4 bytes) Low overhead per TLSF management of pools (~3kB) Low fragmentation Compiles to only a few kB of code and data Support for adding and removing memory pool regions on the fly

Caveats

Currently, assumes architecture can make 4-byte aligned accesses Not designed to be thread safe; the user must provide this

Notes

This code was based on the TLSF 1.4 spec and documentation found at:

http://rtportal.upv.es/rtmalloc/allocators/tlsf/index.shtml

It also leverages the TLSF 2.0 improvement to shrink the per-block overhead from 8 to 4 bytes.

History

2016/04/10 - v3.1 Code moved to github tlsfbits.h rolled into tlsf.c License changed to BSD

2014/02/08 - v3.0 This version is based on improvements from 3DInteractive GmbH Interface changed to allow more than one memory pool Separated pool handling from control structure (adding, removing, debugging) Control structure and pools can still be constructed in the same memory block Memory blocks for control structure and pools are checked for alignment Added functions to retrieve control structure size, alignment size, min and max block size, overhead of pool structure, and overhead of a single allocation Minimal Pool size is tlsf_block_size_min() + tlsf_pool_overhead() Pool must be empty when it is removed, in order to allow O(1) removal

2011/10/20 - v2.0 64-bit support More compiler intrinsics for ffs/fls ffs/fls verification during TLSF creation in debug builds

2008/04/04 - v1.9 Add tlsf_heap_check, a heap integrity check Support a predefined tlsf_assert macro Fix realloc case where block should shrink; if adjacent block is in use, execution would go down the slow path

2007/02/08 - v1.8 Fix for unnecessary reallocation in tlsf_realloc

2007/02/03 - v1.7 tlsf_heap_walk takes a callback tlsf_realloc now returns NULL on failure tlsf_memalign optimization for 4-byte alignment Usage of size_t where appropriate

2006/11/21 - v1.6 ffs/fls broken out into tlsfbits.h tlsf_overhead queries per-pool overhead

2006/11/07 - v1.5 Smart realloc implementation Smart memalign implementation

2006/10/11 - v1.4 Add some ffs/fls implementations Minor code footprint reduction

2006/09/14 - v1.3 Profiling indicates heavy use of blocks of size 1-128, so implement small block handling Reduce pool overhead by about 1kb Reduce minimum block size from 32 to 12 bytes Realloc bug fix

2006/09/09 - v1.2 Add tlsf_block_size Static assertion mechanism for invariants Minor bugfixes

2006/09/01 - v1.1 Add tlsf_realloc Add tlsf_walk_heap

2006/08/25 - v1.0 First release

Module Options

modm:tlsf:subdivisions: Number of subdivisions per memory pool

Generated with: 16 in [16, 32]

modm:tlsf:minimum_pool_size: Minimum pool size in byte

Generated with: 128Ki (131072) in [4Ki .. 128Ki .. 512Mi]