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Kernel prepatch 5.9-rc4

([Kernel] Sep 7, 2020 0:45 UTC (Mon) (corbet))

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The [1]5.9-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. " So I certainly can't claim that things have calmed down, but hopefully this was pretty much it. Knock wood. "

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/830801/

Eric Biederman wrote:
> That added to the fact that last time someone ran the numbers linux
> was considerably faster than the BSD for mm type operations when not
> swapping. And this is the common case.

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