LKML News v6.10-rc2

[PATCH 0/3] mm: zswap: global shrinker fix and proactive shrink (Takero Funaki) https://lore.kernel.org/20240528043404.39327-2-flintglass@gmail.com This patchset fixes two zswap issues coming from global shrinker, and add proactive shrinking of zswap which starts when zswap is 95% full, for 90% accept threshold. [PATCH v7 0/4] Memory management patches needed by Rust Binder (Alice Ryhl) https://lore.kernel.org/20240528-alice-mm-v7-0-78222c31b8f4@google.com Alice sent the seventh revision for making memory management subsystem changes that needed by Rust Binder implementation....

May 28, 2024 · 2 min · 273 words · Me

LKML News v6.10-rc1

[LSFMM] automating measuring memory fragmentation (Luis Chamberlain) https://lore.kernel.org/ZkUOXQvVjXP1T6Nk@bombadil.infradead.org Luis suggested yet another LSFMM session for memory fragmentation measurement aiming to be used to understand how bad the current kernel’s defragmentation approach is, and how much improvement some new proposal is making. page-flags.rst (Matthew Wilcox) https://lore.kernel.org/ZkOu4yXP-sGGtwc4@casper.infradead.org Matthew posted the page-flags documentation that he wrote with LSFMM attendees on his session. [GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.10-rc1 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20240517192239.9285edd85f8ef893bb508a61@linux-foundation.org Andrew sent the memory management part pull request for 6....

May 17, 2024 · 2 min · 359 words · Me

I will have a session for DAMON at LSFMM 2024

I will present and discuss about the current status and future plans of DAMON in Linux Storage/File System/Memory Management/BPF (LSFMM+BPF) 2024. The title of the talks is “DAMON updates and Plans: Automation of DAMON tuning, tiering, and VM guest scaling”. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/176LXLys9Uh6A-Eal2flrzcbUSJMUXGkGwyihr9jAAaQ/edit#gid=0

May 8, 2024 · 1 min · 41 words · Me

LKML News v6.9

[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Locally attached memory tiering (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/e90dc785-c4e6-47e4-8eda-d35325c82ff9@google.com David suggests a new LSFMM topic for local-attached memory tiering. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] CXL Development Discussions (Adam Manzanares) https://lore.kernel.org/9bf86b97-319f-4f58-b658-1fe3ed0b1993@nmtadam.samsung Adam suggests a new LSFMM topic for general CXL development. kdevops BoF at LSFMM (Luis Chamberlain) https://lore.kernel.org/CAB=NE6XyLS1TaAcgzSWa=1pgezRjFoy8nuVtSWSfB8Qsdsx_xQ@mail.gmail.com Luis suggests to have a time slot for sharing ongoing developments and changes for kdevops, which automates complex kernel development workflows. [RFC PATCH 0/2] introduce budgt control in readahead (Zhaoyang Huang) https://lore....

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 208 words · Me

LKML News v6.9-rc7

[PATCH] thp: Remove HPAGE_PMD_ORDER minimum assertion (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240429190114.3126789-1-willy@infradead.org Willy removes the assumption that THP order is always two or more, since we now handle order-1 folios correctly. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] SLUB: what’s next? (Vlastimil Babka) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b929d5fb-8e88-4f23-8ec7-6bdaf61f84f9@suse.cz Vlastimil proposes an LSFMM session to retrospect the SLAB deprecation, share ongoing works, and discuss possible future works for reducing similar allocators such as objpool or mempool. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Maple Tree Proposed Features (Liam R....

April 30, 2024 · 2 min · 313 words · Me