• [$] Per-CPU memory for user space

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Tue Apr 8 14:45:08 2025
    [$] Per-CPU memory for user space

    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:37:07 +0000

    Description:
    The kernel makes extensive use of per-CPU data as a way to avoid contention between processors and improve scalability. Using the same technique in
    user space is harder, though, since there is little control over which CPU
    a process may be running on at any given time. That hasn't stopped Mathieu Desnoyers from trying, though; in the memory-management track of the 2025
    Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he presented
    a proposal for how user-space per-CPU memory could work.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1016408/


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