# Bottlenecks Discovered by Meta Engineers Lead to Scalability Improvements

> **Key takeaway:** Thanks to a small group of engineers at Meta, the Linux kernel module kernfs has been improved, which has led to some serious gains.

**Published:** 2026-10-23T20:52:54+00:00 
**Source:** Linux Magazine News 
**Category:** distro-news 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/bottlenecks-discovered-by-meta-engineers-lead-to-scalability.html 

## Summary
Thanks to a small group of engineers at Meta, the Linux kernel module kernfs has been improved, which has led to some serious gains.