Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

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October 14, 2026
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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 refc...
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