LKML News v6.4-rc2

[PATCH 0/2] Optimization of CMA allocation and reclaiming (Zhaoyang Huang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1683538383-19685-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com This patchset avoids being OOMed when all free pages are composed of CMA. [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm: Working Set Reporting (Yuanchu Xie) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230509185419.1088297-1-yuanchu@google.com This RFC patch adds working set size reporting structure for each node and total, using MGLRU as its core, and extends virtio-balloon for letting the host get the information. [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: repair pattern in DIALOG SEMICONDUCTOR DRIVERS (Lukas Bulwahn) https://lkml....

May 9, 2023 · 2 min · 227 words · Me

DAMON News List

!! NOTE !! This post has migrated to https://damonitor.github.io/posts/damon_news. This out-dated post will be removed soon. Below is a list of news around DAMON project. This list is not exhaustive but just a DAMON maintainer’s collection of news. If you find a news that should be added to this list, please let us know at sj@kernel.org and/or damon@lists.linux.dev. 2024 2024-10-15: DAMON debugfs interface removal RFC patch has posted. 2024-10-10: Monthly PyPI downloads of DAMON user-space too, DAMO, doubled again after ten days....

May 6, 2023 · 10 min · 2022 words · Me

DAMON News List

!! NOTE !! This post has migrated to https://damonitor.github.io/posts/damon_news. This out-dated post will be removed soon. Below is a list of news around DAMON project. This list is not exhaustive but just a DAMON maintainer’s collection of news. If you find a news that should be added to this list, please let us know at sj@kernel.org and/or damon@lists.linux.dev. 2024 2024-10-15: DAMON debugfs interface removal RFC patch has posted. 2024-10-10: Monthly PyPI downloads of DAMON user-space too, DAMO, doubled again after ten days....

May 6, 2023 · 10 min · 2022 words · Me

LKML News v6.4-rc1

[PATCH v2 0/2] Reduce lock contention related with large folio (Yin Fengwei) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230425084627.3573866-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com Ryan found large anonymous folios exposes some lock contention unlike large page cache folios, because anonymous mapping is allocated/freed more frequently. This patchset mitigates the lock contention by avoid acquiring queue lock unnecessarily, and allowing batched large folio list adds to lru list. [PATCH v2 0/3] fs: multigrain timestamps (Jeff Layton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230424151104.175456-1-jlayton@kernel.org This patchset makes file system to support not single-gran timestamp but multi-gran timestamps....

April 25, 2023 · 3 min · 458 words · Me

LKML News v6.3

[PATCH 00/33] Split ptdesc from struct page (Vishal Moola) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230417205048.15870-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com To reduce the struct page overhead, which is about 1.5% of the whole system memory, people are working on to reduce some fileds in struct page. As one of the approach, this patchset prepares for splitting ptdesc from struct page. [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] Introduce objects folding mechanism (Alexey Romanov) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418062503.62121-1-avromanov@sberdevices.ru This patchset adds a feature which allowing folding identical zsmalloc objects into single one....

April 18, 2023 · 2 min · 237 words · Me