LKML News v6.7

[PATCH v3 0/7] hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot (Gang Li)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240102131249.76622-1-gang.li@linux.dev

The thrid version of hugetlb initialization prallelization patchset has posted.

[PATCH v3 00/11] Mitigate a vmap lock contention v3 (Uladzislau Rezki)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240102184633.748113-1-urezki@gmail.com

Third version of vmap lock contention mitigation patch has posted.

[PATCH v6 0/2] Add swappiness argument to memory.reclaim (Dan Schatzberg)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240103164841.2800183-1-schatzberg.dan@gmail.com

Sixth version of the patchset for letting memory.reclaim memcg file be used with swappiness argument has posted. Seems this version has merged into the mm tree.

[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Removing GFP_NOFS (Matthew Wilcox)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZZcgXI46AinlcBDP@casper.infradead.org

Matthew suggests an LSFMM topic for filesystem track. He argues all the related works for mm side is done, and its’ the fs side turn.

[GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.8 (Vlastimil Babka)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0511a72-711b-4c8f-b9d7-da95681000c1@suse.cz

Vlastimil sent the slab pull request for v6.8. This includes the removal of SLAB.

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.8 (Andrew Morton)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240105114314.820c25628928c57f639058fe@linux-foundation.org

Andrew sent yet another hotfix pull request to Linus Torvalds.

Linux 6.7 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=widprp4XoHUcsDe7e16YZjLYJWra-dK0hE1MnfPMf6C3Q@mail.gmail.com

After the rc8 week, Linus released the v6.7 of Linux kernel. It is the biggest one of the history.

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 2022-01-08 | ~/lazybox/gnuplot/plot.py \
    --data_fmt table --type labeled-lines --xtics_rotate -90 \
    --font "Times New Roman, 5pt" --ylog --pointsize 0.3