Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

The fairly short series of ten patches basically enhances folio lookup by noticing when folios are hot, and setting a "delay releasing this folio until after a RCU period", and then using that RCU delay it does not just the folio lookup itself under RCU (which we've done forever), but also the actual folio data accesses themselves under RCU. No refcount taking needed for the fastpath where we can just read the data from the folio entirely in an RCU-protected region when the user copy doesn't cause page faults. The end result is an order-of-magnitude speedup for a read() -heavy benchmark. Review has already identified a race condition in the code, though, so further work will be needed. to post comments Setting a bad example Posted Oct 14, 2026 13:56 UTC (Wed) by jpeisach (subscriber, #181966) [ Link ] (6 responses)