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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
LWN runs kernel-oriented content every week. Some of our more
recent articles in this area include:
| November 10, 2023 | listmount() and statmount() |
| November 9, 2023 | The push to save Itanium |
| November 8, 2023 | Reducing patch postings to linux-kernel |
| November 6, 2023 | The BPF-programmable network device |
| November 3, 2023 | The first half of the 6.7 merge window |
| November 2, 2023 | Guest-first memory for KVM |
| October 31, 2023 | Rust code review and netdev |
| October 30, 2023 | Some 6.6 development statistics |
| October 27, 2023 | Deferred scheduling for user-space critical sections |
| October 26, 2023 | Better string handling for the kernel |
| October 25, 2023 | Weighted interleaving for memory tiering |
| October 20, 2023 | mseal() and what comes after |
| October 12, 2023 | Finer-grained BPF tokens |
| October 9, 2023 | Rethinking multi-grain timestamps |
| October 2, 2023 | Revisiting the kernel's preemption model, part 2 |
| September 27, 2023 | Moving the kernel to large block sizes |
| September 25, 2023 | The PuzzleFS container filesystem |
| September 22, 2023 | User-space spinlocks with help from rseq() |
| September 21, 2023 | Revisiting the kernel's preemption models (part 1) |
| September 18, 2023 | Moving physical pages from user space |
Recent kernel patches
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