Introduction to Kernel Power Management

In order to keep up with the complexities of SoCs, the Linux kernel has an ever-growing set of features for power management. For the uninitiated, it can be confusing how each of these features work and even more confusing how they should work together. This talk will...

Kernel packet capture technologies

Capturing packets running on the wire to send them to a software doing analysis seems at first sight a simple tasks. But one has not to forget that with current network this can means capturing 30M packets per second. The objective of this talk is to show what methods...

Linux Stable Release process

The Linux kernel gets a stable release about once every week. This talk will go into the process of getting a patch accepted into the stable releases, how the release process works, and how Greg does a review and release cycle. It will consist of live examples of...

Multi-campus Layer 2 Network Fabric: what? why? How?

Two years ago we presented our implementation of Virtual Network over TRILL in the Linux kernel. We were able to build lots of logic networks within a datacenter. Now the work continue but at a different level, we need to expand it to multiples datacenters. The...