Linux Kernel Patch From Thomas Gleixner Improves Postgres Benchmark by 15%
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A Linux kernel patch by Thomas Gleixner improved Postgres benchmark performance by 15%, highlighting ongoing kernel development and optimization efforts.
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AFAICT the performance win is coming from undoing a performance loss stemming from relatively recently added CONFIG_SCHED_MM_CID mechanism[0] (2022).
[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...