[$] Improvements in the block layer
Jens Axboe is themaintainer of the block layer of the kernel. In this capacity,he spoke at Kernel Recipes2017 on what's new in the storage world for Linux, with a particular focus on the new block-multiqueue subsystem:the degree to which it's been adopted, a number of optimizations thathave recently been made, and a bit of speculation abouthow it will further improve in the future.
Subscribers can click below for a report from the Kernel Recipes talk byguest author Tom Yates.