The Latest Sheaves Work To Hopefully Improve Linux Performance

Posted by bob on Oct 25, 2025 7:35 AM EDT
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Merged for Linux 6.18 was a new feature called Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer. Plus there is a per-NUMA-node cache of Sheaves called a "Barn". In continuing to build out the Linux kernel usage of Sheaves, a set of initial patches were posted this week to replace the CPU slabs with Sheaves within the slub allocator code...

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