Article 6WGMY [$] A new type of spinlock for the BPF subsystem

[$] A new type of spinlock for the BPF subsystem

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The 6.15 merge window saw the inclusion of a new type of lock for BPF programs:a resilient queued spinlock that Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi has been working onfor some time. Eventually, he hopes to convert all of the spinlocks currentlyused in the BPF subsystem to his new lock.He gave a remote presentation about the design of the lock at the2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,Memory-Management, and BPF summit.

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