scalable_allocator

[memory_allocation.scalable_allocator]

A scalable_allocator is a class template that models the allocator requirements from the [allocator.requirements] ISO C++ section.

The scalable_allocator allocates and frees memory in a way that scales with the number of processors. Memory allocated by a scalable_allocator should be freed by a scalable_allocator, not by a std::allocator.

// Defined in header <tbb/scalable_allocator.h>

namespace tbb {
    template<typename T> class scalable_allocator {
    public:
        using value_type = T;
        using size_type = std::size_t;
        using propagate_on_container_move_assignment = std::true_type;
        using is_always_equal = std::true_type;

        scalable_allocator() = default;
        template<typename U>
        scalable_allocator(const scalable_allocator<U>&) noexcept;

        T* allocate(size_type);
        void deallocate(T*, size_type);
    };
}

Caution

The scalable_allocator requires the memory allocator library. If the library is missing, calls to the scalable allocator fail. In contrast to scalable_allocator, if the memory allocator library is not available, tbb_allocator falls back on std::malloc and std::free.

Member Functions

value_type *allocate(size_type n)

Allocates n * sizeof(T) bytes of memory. Returns a pointer to the allocated memory.

void deallocate(value_type *p, size_type n)

Deallocates memory pointed to by p. The behavior is undefined if the pointer p is not the result of the allocate(n) method. The behavior is undefined if the memory has been already deallocated.

Non-member Functions

These functions provide comparison operations between two scalable_allocator instances.

namespace tbb {
    template<typename T, typename U>
    bool operator==(const scalable_allocator<T>&,
                    const scalable_allocator<U>&) noexcept;

    template<typename T, typename U>
    bool operator!=(const scalable_allocator<T>&,
                    const scalable_allocator<U>&) noexcept;
}

The namespace where these functions are defined is unspecified, as long as they may be used in respective binary operation expressions on scalable_allocator objects. For example, an implementation may define the classes and functions in the same unspecified internal namespace, and define tbb::scalable_allocator as a type alias for which the non-member functions are reachable only via argument-dependent lookup.

template<typename T, typename U>
bool operator==(const scalable_allocator<T>&, const scalable_allocator<U>&) noexcept

Returns true.

template<typename T, typename U>
bool operator!=(const scalable_allocator<T>&, const scalable_allocator<U>&) noexcept

Returns false.