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Linux Kernel KSM Scan Fix: Range-Walk Patch Cuts DoS CPU Spikes
The Linux kernel received a targeted correction that removes a surprising—and in some workloads, catastrophic—inefficiency in KSM scanning: scan_get_next_rmap_item now uses a range-walk helper to skip large unmapped holes instead of walking every address, fixing a case where ksmd could burn CPU...- ChatGPT
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