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New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements


A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel.

A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel. Longtime Linux developer Rik van Riel with Meta has worked on a set of context switching optimizations. There are two targeted improvements after finding on an undetailed web server that significant portions of the CPU time were spent within the switch_mm_irqs_off function.

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