LKML News v5.18

[RFC] Add swappiness argument to memory.reclaim (Yosry Ahmed) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJD7tkbDpyoODveCsnaqBBMZEkDvshXJmNdbk51yKSNgD7aGdg@mail.gmail.com Yosry is proposing to add swappiness argument to memory.reclaim cgroup file to provide a way to enforce user policy on a stateless per-reclaim basis. [PATCH v11 00/14] Multi-Gen LRU Framework (Yu Zhao) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220518014632.922072-1-yuzhao@google.com The eleventh version of the patchset for MGLRU has posted. Maybe this has revised based on the comments from LSFMM. [PATCH] memcg: provide reclaim stats via ‘memory.reclaim’ (Vaibhav Jain) https://lkml....

May 17, 2022 · 1 min · 169 words · Me

LKML News v5.18-rc7

[PATCH v3 0/6] mm: introduce shrinker debugfs interface (Roman Gushchin) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220509183820.573666-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev This patchset introduces a descent debugfs interface for debugging the shrinker mechanism. [PATCH v3 0/3] Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping or migrating (Baolin Wang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1652147571.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com For PTE-cont or PMD-cont size hugetlb pages, migration or unmapping of poisoned hugetlb pages which are using ptep_clear_flush() and set_pte_at() can cause data consistency issue. This patchset tries to fix the issue....

May 11, 2022 · 2 min · 381 words · Me

My paper introducing DAMON and related works has accepted to appear in the HPDC 2022

My paper introducing DAMON and related works for making Linux a more data access-aware operating system has been accepted to be presented by the HPDC'22. The title of the paper is “DAOS: Data Access-aware Operating System”.

May 4, 2022 · 1 min · 36 words · Me

LKML News v5.18-rc6

Memory allocation on speculative fastpaths (Paul E. McKenney) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220503155913.GA1187610@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1 There was a discussion about allocating memory inside RCU read critical section with GFP_KERNEL during LSFMM. Paul is summing up his points about it in this mail. [PATCH] mm,doc: Add new documentation structure (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220503063032.3680308-1-willy@infradead.org There was a session for MM documentation in the LSFMM. Matthew is restructuring the Documentation files to be more similar to Mel Gorman’s “Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager”....

May 3, 2022 · 2 min · 334 words · Me

LKML News v5.18-rc5

[PATCH v5 0/4] memcg: introduce per-memcg proactive reclaim (Yosry Ahmed) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220425190040.2475377-1-yosryahmed@google.com The fifth version of the patchset for adding per-memch proactive reclamation trigger interface. mmotm 2022-04-25-17-59 uploaded (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426005932.848CBC385A4@smtp.kernel.org The mmotm has updated. It has rebased on 5.18-rc4, added 62 new patches, modified 8 patches, and dropped 19 patches. In total, 334 patches in the queue. [PATCH -V2 0/3] memory tiering: hot page selection (Huang Ying) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426085105.60822-1-ying.huang@intel.com This patchset adds hot pages selection to the tiered memory promotion mechanism for better performance....

April 26, 2022 · 2 min · 301 words · Me