📰 EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains

EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system's buffer_head usage with IOmap...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/EXT4-iomap-Buffered-IO

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📰 Linus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs

After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the Linux kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Assoc-Array

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