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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-24 22:09:05)
Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms

Sent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements. Most notable is a performance optimization within mm/memblock.c that implements the kernel's early boot-time physical memory allocator that is used prior to the bring-up of the full page allocator...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-memblock
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