This talk describes how the Linux kernel development model works, what a long term supported kernel is, and why all Linux-based systems devices should be using all of the stable releases and not attempting to pick and choose random patches. It also goes into how the...
The generic PM domains (genpd) framework in the kernel provides a way of grouping devices together that have common power management (PM) operations. It is commonly used to represent hardware power domains (a.k.a power islands) that share a common voltage rail, but...
Linux perf is a crucial performance analysis tool at Netflix, and is used by a self-service GUI for generating CPU flame graphs and other reports. This sounds like an easy task, however, getting perf to work properly in VM guests running Java, Node.js, containers, and...
The in-kernel Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) has been enhanced in recent kernels to do much more than just filtering packets. It can now run user-defined programs on events, such as on tracepoints, kprobes, uprobes, and perf_events, allowing advanced performance...
The effort to merge the real-time preemption patch into the mainline kernel requires to refactor existing infrastructure in the kernel. Such refactoring work is intrusive and potentially disruptive. This talk will take a close look at recent refactoring work and...
