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Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement

Phoronix By Michael Larabel Oct 23, 2026 · 3:27 PM 3 views 0 comments

Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement — Image: Phoronix

The slab pull request was just merged for Linux 7.4. For end users nothing too incredibly exciting but there is one change that does yield a 24% throughput improvement in a benchmark exercising the kernel's memory management subsystem...

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