OPINION
BYE, 2022!
Jon Masters is a kernel hacker who’s been involved with Linux for over 22 years, and works on energy-efficient Arm servers.
I’m writing this as we near the end-of-year holiday period, a time when we tend to look back at the past 12 months. And what a year 2022 was. My wife and I bought our first house – and five Linux kernels were released! We started the year with Linux 5.16, which added memory folios (improving the scaling of certain memory operations) and support for Intel AMX. Next came Linux 5.17, which added a P-state (power) driver for AMD systems, and Linux 5.18, with scheduler improvements and a switch to the C11 standard.