Tux Machines

Kernel Coverage at LWN

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 08, 2023

=> Security Leftovers | Qt6 and Object Lifetime

Zoned storage and filesystems

=> ↺ Zoned storage and filesystems

a discussion of a few issues around using zoned storage for filesystems.

Cloud-storage optimizations

=> ↺ Cloud-storage optimizations

discussion on I/O hints for cloud-based emulated block devices—and how to see them get implemented relatively quickly.

Atomic block-write operations

=> ↺ Atomic block-write operations

discussion on support for atomically writing data in sizes that are multiples of a device's block size.

Flexible-order anonymous folios

=> ↺ Flexible-order anonymous folios

the page cache can handle folios of multiple sizes; work is underway to bring the same flexibility to anonymous memory.

Optimizing single-owner memory

=> ↺ Optimizing single-owner memory

a proposal to optimize the management of memory that will never be shared.

Mitigating vmap lock contention

=> ↺ Mitigating vmap lock contention

allocations in the kernel's vmap area can be subject to significant lock contention; this session looked at the problem and a proposed way to improve the situation.

Improving page-fault scalability

=> ↺ Improving page-fault scalability

the 2023 version of this regular LSFMM+BPF discussion.

Code tagging and memory-allocation profiling

=> ↺ Code tagging and memory-allocation profiling

for the second year in a row, the memory-management developers consider the code-tagging patches.

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