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Torvalds' AI Patch Reaches RFC in One Week: Meta Developer Expands It to 18 Patches, With 4.5x Faster ext4 Reads

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A Meta kernel developer reworked Torvalds' Claude Code-written page-cache patches into an 18-patch RFC series, reporting roughly 4.5x faster ext4 reads on LKML and up to 13x with mitigations disabled. Key points What happened: Meta's Kiryl Shutsemau reorganized Torvalds' LLM-generated, 10-patch pro…

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  1. 2026-10-20 15:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Torvalds' AI Patch Reaches RFC in One Week: Meta Developer Expands It to 18 Patches, With 4.5x Faster ext4 Reads

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