Allocators

Allocators are the fundamental object used to allocate and deallocate memory using Umpire.

Allocators provide a unified interface to allocate and free data. They also encapsulate all the details of how and where allocations will be made, and can also be used to introspect the memory resource. The allocator objects do not return typed allocations, so the pointer returned from the allocate method must be cast to the relevant type.

Typed Allocator

The Typed Allocator is an allocator for objects of type T.

This class is an adaptor that allows using an Allocator to allocate objects of type T. You can use this class as an allocator for STL containers like std::vector.

Device Allocator

The Device Allocator is an allocator specifically designed to be used on the GPU.

The Device Allocator is created with a size parameter that specifies the maximum amount of memory available for the Device Allocator to use. Hence, the Device Allocator doesn’t actually allocate new memory when the allocate member function is called. Instead, it increments a pointer atomically to the relevant data.