LKML News v5.6-rc3

[PATCH 0/2] slabinfo: parse all NUMA attributes

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200217084828.9092-1-tobin@kernel.org

The author of this patchset found some information regarding NUMA is missed in slabinfo. This patchset adds the info.

[PATCH v6 0/7] introduce memory hinting API for external process

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200219014433.88424-1-minchan@kernel.org

Sixth version of the patchset for new system call, ‘madvise_process()'. Changes are not so big. Support null task argument and requestor’s mm for ‘io_madvise()'.

[PATCH] mm: Stop kswapd early when nothing’s waiting for it to free pages

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200219182522.1960-1-sultan@kerneltoast.com

Once kswapd is awaken, it does many things. To avoid that, this patch stops kswapd prematurely if it doesn’t need to work to make and allocation succeed anymore.

[PATCH v2 0/9] workingset protection/detection on the anonymous LRU list

The second version of the patchset for workingset in LRU protection. This patchset avoids evicting workingset for scanning data.

Linux 5.6-rc3

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whGODQBDqPGcEFU8EVkNAzMK9+gK_sGaUNHSZnB=JL+_Q@mail.gmail.com

The third rc3 release was a little bit small. However, there were smaller rc3 and bigger rc3, either. Torvalds says this is fairly normal rc3, though there are too much noise in the signal to be sure about.