5.11 Merge window, part 1

Posted Dec 30, 2020 16:00 UTC (Wed) by zuki (subscriber, #41808)
Parent article: 5.11 Merge window, part 1

> The accounting of memory used by BPF programs has changed completely. There is now a control-group controller providing fine-grained management of memory use;

No new controller, that would be pretty bad (heavyweight and annoyingly user-visible). Instead, the allocations are made visible to the memory controller, so everything happens "automagically" thanks to existing infrastructure.