Blake Jones

sacramento, california, united states

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California politics reporter based in Sacramento. Co-Author of POLITICO California Playbook. Previously covered education and the state budget in California for POLITICO; state education policy for Idaho Education News; and local government for the Idaho Press. Former Education Writers Association fellow. College of Idaho Political Economy and Creative Writing alum.

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LKML: Blake Jones: [PATCH v5] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

This colocates some hot fields in "struct rq" to be on the same cache line as others that are often accessed at the same time or in similar ways. Using data from a Google-internal fleet-scale profiler, I found three distinct groups of hot fields in struct... See more

lkml.org•Blake Jones•Dec 1, 2025

LKML: Blake Jones: Re: [PATCH v4] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

Hi Peter, Do you have any more questions or thoughts about this patch, after our discussion of v3 last week? Blake On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM Blake Jones wrote: > This colocates some hot fields in "struct rq" to be on the same cache line > as... See more

lkml.org•Blake Jones•Nov 3, 2025

LKML: Blake Jones: Re: [PATCH v3] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Most places that take rq->lock also update rq->clock. So I was wondering > if it made sense to put them together. I don't have numbers either. Makes sense. I think I'll leave it out of t... See more

lkml.org•Blake Jones•Oct 29, 2025

LKML: Blake Jones: [PATCH v4] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

lkml.org•Blake Jones•Oct 29, 2025

LKML: Blake Jones: Re: [PATCH v3] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

[I thought I'd turned off HTML on my reply just now, but apparently not. Sorry about that. Re-sending so the list has context...] Hi Peter, Thanks for your questions. Here are my thoughts: On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM Peter Zijlstra wrote: > queue_... See more

lkml.org•Blake Jones•Oct 28, 2025

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LKML: Blake Jones: [PATCH v5] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

LKML: Blake Jones: Re: [PATCH v4] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

LKML: Blake Jones: Re: [PATCH v3] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

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LKML: Blake Jones: [PATCH v5] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

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LKML: Blake Jones: Re: [PATCH v3] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

LKML: Blake Jones: [PATCH v4] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq

LKML: Blake Jones: Re: [PATCH v3] sched: reorder some fields in struct rq