It is not ok that we speed weeks, even months, trying to solve why software is slow. Companies waste money on compute costs, users are unhappy with latency, and product evaluations run out of investigation time. It should not take more than a week to identify the root...
We have improved the Linux page fault mechanism to reduce the number of faults and handle them more quickly when they do happen. By managing memory in large folios, we reduce the number of page faults. The 4KiB page used on many architectures is simply too small for...
Having a dynamically-sized trailing array at the end of a structure is a popular code construct in the Linux kernel. However, trailing arrays can also be of a fixed size, which means that their size is well-defined at compile-time and remains fixed throughout their...
The Rockchip RK3588 system-on-chip (SoC) is an impressive flagship with 8 ARM cores (4x A76, 4x A55), plenty of cache, and a vast amount of peripherals. Among other things this SoC has an Arm G610 Mali GPU, multiple PCIe lanes, hardware video decoders and encoders...
