LKML News v5.6-rc1

[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Memory Tiering discussion

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHbLzkqOKtM684SGnCaa9ObHj082KenoPmRXvxMJ1UjcdvrhMQ@mail.gmail.com

The author, Yang Shi has posted a patchset for tiered memory management last year, but received no many comments. Meanwhile, Dave posted another similar patch. He wants to discuss about this in LSF/MM this year.

Linux 5.6-rc1

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjVopuAm5Vwa1kK5O1tTzQAGFtCHm8_Hzy3Us1OC=PgUw@mail.gmail.com

After the two weeks, the merge window for 5.6 has finished and therefore the 5.6-rc1 has released.

This merge window was slightly smaller than usual. Torvalds think this is the slow effect from the year end holiday season. That said, there were still huge changes (more than 10K commits) and the changes are normal.