Linux 5.15 Has A Critical Improvement For Tiered Memory Servers

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Linux 5.15 Has A Critical Improvement For Tiered Memory Servers

03 September 2021, 03:50 PM

Phoronix: Linux 5.15 Has A Critical Improvement For Tiered Memory Servers

Landing via Andrew Morton's patch series today in the Linux 5.15 kernel is handling for demoting pages during memory reclaim, which can be used for punting cold pages off to slower, tiered memory devices (like Intel persistent memory) when under system memory pressure...

Linux 5.15 Has A Critical Improvement For Tiered Memory Servers - Phoronix

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