A patch series posted overnight that is part of a larger planned rework for the kernel to introduce a “Swap Table” is poised to bring significant real-world performance gains to the Linux kernel. Kairui Song of Tencent posted the initial phase of patches for introducing a Swap Table and for it to serve as the kernel’s swap cache. This stems …
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Torvalds blasts kernel dev for late ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches • The Register
Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer “on notice” for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which “makes the world actively a worse place to live” – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old. Torvalds’ brusque attitude was perhaps most well demonstrated in …
Read More »Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993
Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.99 kernel days. A Linux engineer working at Alibaba recently reported on a script-generated Assembly file that …
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