LKML News v6.2-rc7

[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] CXL Fabric Manager (FM) architecture (Viacheslav A.Dubeyko)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7F001EAF-C512-436A-A9DD-E08730C91214@bytedance.com

A topic suggestion for LSF/MM/BPF. It suggests to discuss about Fabric Manager (FM) architecture, which requires configuration tool, daemon, and QEMU emulation of CXL hardware features.

[PATCH V2 0/3] sched/numa: Enhance vma scanning (Ragghavendra K T)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1675159422.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com

A patchset for improving access scanning for NUMA balancing. This uses per-thread VMA scanning idea from Mel.

LSFMMBPF proposal [MM]: Lazy RCU memory reclaim (Joel Fernandes)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y9o+FWwoLUdp2ees@google.com

Joel proposes an LSF/MM/BPF session for introducing lazy RCU, which adds multi-seconds delays in RCU memory reclaim for power saving on Android and ChromeOS.

[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] mm docs (Mike Rapoport)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y9qje+k0a77UlOwd@kernel.org

Mike proposes an LSF/MM/BPF session for discussing mm documentation improvements.

[RFC PATCH v1 0/2] Ignore non-LRU-based reclaim in memcg reclaim (Yosry Ahmed)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230202233229.3895713-1-yosryahmed@google.com

Non-LRU-based reclaimed pages are counted as LRU-based reclaim. This patchset makes the counter to ignore those pages to avoid overestimated counts.

Linux 6.2-rc7 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whSVeeQN9vO-WSxFkNs0zbUJEBqND-1VO8OJtmu_sn_nw@mail.gmail.com

Seventh release candidate for Linux 6.2 has released with fair small size. Torvalds says it’s almost ready to be released as 6.2 next week, but he will do one more rc release due to the holidays at the beginning of 6.2 release, as promised.

Below is the diffstat of the releases in the last two years.

Note that the y-axis is in logarithm. I draw it using https://github.com/sjp38/relstat and https://github.com/sjp38/lazybox using below command:

$ relstat.py --since 2021-02-06 | ~/lazybox/gnuplot/plot.py \
    --data_fmt table --type labeled-lines --xtics_rotate -90 \
    --font "Times New Roman, 5pt" --ylog --pointsize 0.3

And, below is the diffstat of the -rc6 releases in the last two years.