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Uncached Buffered I/O & Some Other Nice Memory Management Optimizations With Linux 6.14


Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his 'MM' pull request for Linux 6.14 as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version.

Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his "MM" pull request for Linux 6.14 as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version. There is a ton of exciting MM changes this cycle for the Linux 6.14 kernel release due out in March. - Removing the global swap cgroup lock was found to provide a 10% speed-up for TMPFS-based kernel builds.

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