[compudj]

It all depends on how much control you have on the system you target. The strategy you refer to may well work for a dedicated deployment, but if you are developing a general-purpose memory allocator targeting a wide range of applications, you might not want to impose those constraints on your users.

[signa11]

ah, thanks for the information ! having used 'isolcpu' on dedicated-systems, i completely overlooked this aspect.