Call for proposals of Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) 2025 is now open!
The Linux Plumbers Conference is the premier event for developers working at all levels of the plumbing layer and beyond. Taking place on Thursday 11th, Friday 12th and Saturday 13th of December, this year we will be both in person and remote. The in-person venue is the Toranomon Hills Forum, Tokyo, Japan.
Please refer to our latest blog post for more details.
https://lpc.events/blog/current/index.php/2025/05/14/submission-time-for-linux-plumbers-2025/
[$] Preparing DAMON for future memory-management problems
The Data Access MONitor (DAMON) subsystem provides access to detailed memory-management statistics, along with a set of tools for implementing policies based on those statistics. [...]
@ljs great timing with the "beers of a feather" session organized and stocked by Rik ;) coincidentally it's only thanks to his commit that this beer mug actually exists
DAMON Self-Tuned Memory Tiering Shows Nice Improvement For Linux Servers
Linux developer SeongJae Park has posted a set of patches for the Linux kernel's wonderful DAMON code to provide for self-tuned memory tiering that "just works" and is racking up some nice performance wins...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DAMON-Self-Tuned-Memory-Tiering