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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
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| April 18, 2025 | The problem of unnecessary readahead |
| April 18, 2025 | Tracepoints for the VFS? |
| April 17, 2025 | Memory controller performance improvements |
| April 16, 2025 | Parallel directory operations |
| April 16, 2025 | Taking BPF programs beyond one-million instructions |
| April 16, 2025 | Improvements for the contiguous memory allocator |
| April 16, 2025 | Topics from the virtual filesystem layer |
| April 15, 2025 | Automatic tuning for weighted interleaving |
| April 14, 2025 | In search of a stable BPF verifier |
| April 14, 2025 | The state of the memory-management development process, 2025 edition |
| April 11, 2025 | Managing multiple sources of page-hotness data |
| April 11, 2025 | Inlining kfuncs into BPF programs |
| April 10, 2025 | Atomic writes for ext4 |
| April 10, 2025 | Management of volatile CXL devices |
| April 10, 2025 | Preparing DAMON for future memory-management problems |
| April 9, 2025 | An update on torn-write protection |
| April 9, 2025 | A new type of spinlock for the BPF subsystem |
| April 9, 2025 | Improving hot-page detection and promotion |
| April 9, 2025 | Two approaches to better kernel samepage merging |
| April 8, 2025 | Using large folios for text areas |
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