My calendar must be wrong...

Posted Feb 7, 2026 14:54 UTC (Sat) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: My calendar must be wrong... by Alterego
Parent article: An in-kernel machine-learning library

Why are you talking about LLMs? This patch is about Machine Learning, doesn't mention LLMs at all.

There are many useful ML models, though I also don't directly see any useful places. Currently the OOM killer and the scheduler have all sorts of heuristics, perhaps an ML model could do better?

The patch seems to mostly cover the interaction of a model running in user space acting on data collected by the kernel. Interesting idea, but without a concrete use case ....

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My calendar must be wrong...

Posted Feb 12, 2026 9:34 UTC (Thu) by anton (subscriber, #25547) [Link]

For the OOM killer I don't see where the feedback (or ground truth) that ML learns from would come from in sufficient quantity.

For e.g., scheduling decisions I can imagine some feedback mechanisms, but they probably need to be weighted with information about what's important for each thread (as discussed recently).

Anyway, for stuff where heuristics are at work anyway, ML looks appropriate. The only problem is that one has even more problems explaining any failures than with hand-coded heuristics.