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[$] Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche
Thursday August 21, 2025. 06:12 PM , from LWN.net
The restartable sequences feature, which
was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users for restartable sequences, they tend to be relatively specialized code; this is not a tool that most application developers reach for. Over time, though, the use of restartable sequences has grown, and it looks to grow further as the feature is tied to new capabilities provided by the kernel. As restartable sequences become less of a niche feature, though, some problems have turned up; fixing one of them may involve an ABI change visible in user space.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1033955/
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