• [$] Faster RCUs and lockless memory allocation

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wednesday, July 08, 2026 06:40:09


    Puranjay Mohan shared some of the

    work he's been doing recently on improving the
    performance of read-copy-update (RCU) at the 2026

    Linux
    Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit; his talk would have been nice context to have earlier in the day when Harry Yoo and Alexei Starovoitov led a session about the

    new kmalloc_nolock() function that
    allows for lockless allocation from any kernel context, and which interacts with
    the RCU subsystem to allow that. This article therefore covers the two sessions
    together and in the reverse order, to provide that missing context.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1081009/
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