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Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code
Sent out this morning as part of this week's 'locking/urgent' pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 release
Sent out this morning as part of this week's "locking/urgent" pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 release. The FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH functionality was introduced as part of the work on supporting task local hash maps that landed alongside some nice Futex improvements in Linux 6.16. So FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH with today's pull request is being gated by the "BROKEN" Kconfig option so it's effectively disabled for the rest of the Linux 6.16 cycle.
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