[$] Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU

The multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) is an alternative memory-management algorithm that was merged for the 6.1 kernel in late 2022. It brought a promise of much-improved performance [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060967/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Android #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF

[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes

There are many applications that need to be able to write multi-block chunks of data to disk with the assurance that the operation will either complete successfully or fail altoget [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060063/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL #XFS #BPF #io_uring