#performance
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Binary Search Speeds Up Early Linux Boot: From 268 Seconds Down to 50 Milliseconds
A Google engineer swapped linear search for binary search in Linux 7.4's memblock code, cutting Kernel Handover memory retrieval time by a factor of thousands.
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Linux 7.4 Makes Workqueue Flushing 10-100x Faster on Big Servers
A workqueue optimization in Linux 7.4 makes flushes visit only the queues used since the last flush, dramatically speeding things up on high-core-count machines.