The kernel is great at doing its job for your task, providing unified access to hardware, filesystem, network, scheduling your code when you need to, … But can’t it all be done quietly please, because your application is sensitive to headaches and is having a hard...
For decades, all laptops have come with a TPM. Now with Microsoft forcing the transition to the next generation, Linux faces a challenge in that all the previous TPM 1.2 tools don’t work with 2.0. Having to create new tools for TPM 2.0 also provides the opportunity...
This talk will introduce XDP (eXpress Data Path), and explain how this is essentially a new (programmable) network layer in-front of the existing network stack. Then it will dive into the details of the new XDP redirect feature, which goes beyond forwarding packets...
The Coccinelle C-program matching and transformation tool was first released in 2008 to facilitate specification and automation in the evolution of Linux kernel code. The novel contribution of Coccinelle is to allow software developers to write code manipulation rules...
The CPU idle loop is the piece of code executed by logical CPUs if they have no tasks to run. If the CPU supports idle states allowing it to draw less power while not executing any instructions, the idle loop invokes a CPU idle governor to select the most suitable...
