LKML News v5.19-rc4

[PATCH Part2 v6 00/49] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) (Ashsh Kalra) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1655761627.git.ashish.kalra@amd.com This is second part patchset of Secure Encrypted Paging (SEV-SNP) work, which focuses on the changes required in a host OS for the feature support. [PATCH v7 00/12] mm/demotion: Memory tiers and demotion (Aneesh Kumar K.V) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220622082513.467538-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com This patchset improves memory tiers construction to be more explicit and flexible, and memory allocation for demotion to have no change....

June 21, 2022 · 2 min · 267 words · Me

LKML News v5.19-rc3

[PATCH 0/8] Extend DAMOS for Proactive LRU-lists Sorting (SeongJae Park) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-1-sj@kernel.org After the RFC, official patchset for DAMON-based LRU-lists sorting has posted. This immediately merged in the -mm tree. [PATCH v12 00/14] Multi-Gen LRU Framework (Yu Zhao) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220614071650.206064-1-yuzhao@google.com A new version of MGLRU has posted. Compared to the previous version, this version fixes a bug and nits, and contains new test results based on v5.19-rc1. Maintainer’s / Kernel Summit 2022 CFP (Theodore Ts’o) https://lkml....

June 14, 2022 · 2 min · 282 words · Me

LKML News v5.19-rc2

[PATCH v3 0/6] introduce mirrored memory support for arm64 (Wupeng Ma) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220607093805.1354256-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com This patchset adds memory mirroring support, which relies on UEFI and used to separate memory into two separate channels, to arm64. [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: N:M interleave policy for tiered memory nodes (Johannes Weiner) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220607171949.85796-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Current pages NUMA-interleaving policy is 1:1 mapping, 1 for CPU node, 1 for remote note. As more types of tiered memory systems having CPU-less memory nodes are coming, this patchset introduces an N:M interleave policy, which N pages are allocated from the top-tier node while M pages are allocated from low-tier nodes....

June 7, 2022 · 2 min · 324 words · Me

LKML News v5.19-rc1

[PATCH] arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64 (Barry Song) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220524071403.128644-1-21cnbao@gmail.com This patch enables THP_SWAP, which can help swap performance on systems having fast swap storages, for arm64. [CFP LPC 2022] Kernel Memory Management Microconference (Vlastimil Babka) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d24e9ac9-0903-3c15-c446-2962f44a360f@suse.cz This year, LPC will have kernel memory management microconference. It will supplement the LSF/MM and lead by Matthew Wilcox and Vlastimil Babka. [PATCH v2] arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64 (Barry Song) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220527100644.293717-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Second version of the THP_SWAP enablement for arm64 has posted....

May 24, 2022 · 3 min · 557 words · Me

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