๐ [$] The twilight of the version-1 memory controller
๐ก Newskategorie: Linux Tipps
๐ Quelle: lwn.net
Almost immediately after the merging of control groups, kernel developers set their sights on reimplementing them properly. The second version of the control-group API started trickling into the kernel around the 3.16 release in 2014 and users have long since been encouraged to migrate, but support for (and users of) the initial API remain. At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, memory-management developers discussed whether (and when) it might be possible to remove the version-1 memory controller. The session was led by Shakeel Butt and (participating remotely) Roman Gushchin. ...