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Queued up in a TIP branch ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window opening in about one month's time is optimizing the Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" code for its exit to user-space code path.

Intel Fellow Thomas Gleixner of Linutronix worked on a set of patches recently for optimizing the exit to user-space path for Restartable Sequences, the functionality for efficient access and manipulation of per-CPU data structures by user-space.

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[โ€“] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Those sure are words... Anyone want to translate?

[โ€“] Natanael 7 points 16 hours ago

It's mostly a way to improve coordination around code which uses multiple processor cores, so it will improve multitasking performance for some programs

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