Phoronix July 26, 2026 • 15:32

"KVM Chainsaw" Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure - Phoronix

"KVM Chainsaw" Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure - Phoronix

A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the 'KVM Chainsaw' as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu 'god data structure'.

Red Hat engineer and KVM maintainer Paolo Bonzini has merged the kvm-chainsaw branch to KVM's "next" Git branch. With this KVM Chainsaw work now in the next branch, it should be submitted for the upc… [+2114 chars]

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