Torvalds submits Linux page-cache patches largely written with Claude Code
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Linus Torvalds says he wrote a set of Linux kernel patches largely with Anthropic's Claude Code, working under his direction.
The patches target page cache contention that slows multi-threaded small reads. In one laptop test, Torvalds reports eight-thread throughput rising from about 10 million to 30–33 million reads per second.
The work is not yet merged into mainline, and memory reclamation issues remain unresolved, according to the report.
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AILinus Torvalds says he wrote a set of Linux kernel patches largely with Anthropic's Claude Code, under his direction. The patches address a page cache contention problem that slows multi-threaded small reads. In one test on his laptop, eight-thread throughput rose from about 10 million to 30–33 million reads per second, though the branch is not yet merged into mainline and memory reclamation issues remain unresolved.
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