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Linux 6.11 "MM" Patches Include Many Improvements, A 10x Speedup For One Optimization
Andrew Morton on Sunday sent in his 'MM' pull requests for Linux 6.11 of the areas of the kernel he manages.
- Multi-size THP (mTHP) support for anonymous SHMEM that can yield a "significant improvement" around page fault latency. "This series adds support for reclaiming PMD-mapped THP marked as lazyfree without needing to first split the large folio via split_huge_pmd_address(). For less than $4 USD per month, you can help support our site while the funds generated allow us to keep doing Linux hardware reviews, performance benchmarking, maintain our community forums, and much more.
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