Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 13, 2023

• Large folios for anonymous memory: there are advantages to enabling larger allocations for anonymous memory, but some challenges remain.
• A pair of workqueue improvements: two improvements to the workqueue mechanism, one of which made it into 6.4 and one of which did not.
• The rest of the 6.5 merge window: a summary of the most interesting changes pulled in the latter half of this merge window.
• The last installment of LSFMM+BPF coverage:
  • BPF iterators for filesystems: a way to use BPF iterators to retrieve various kinds of filesystem information.
  • The FUSE BPF filesystem: a FUSE implementation that uses BPF to reduce the number of transitions in and out of the kernel.
  • Testing for storage and filesystems: what can be done to improve the kernel's infrastructure for the testing of storage and filesystem changes?

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Please enjoy this week's edition, and, as always, thank you for supporting LWN.net.