[$] MM medley: huge page allocation, page promotion, KSM, and BPF
Date:
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:54:31 +0000
Description:
As the 2025 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF)
approaches, the density of memory-management patches on the mailing lists
has increased. Included among those are patches aimed at improving the reliability and performance of huge-page allocation, implementing page promotion on tiered-memory systems, adding a different approach to deduplicating memory, and replacing the BPF memory allocator. Read on for
an overview of each.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1014220/
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