David will present a summary of the netconf workshop happening at Kernel Recipes this...
io_uring has set a remarkably high bar for storage performance. Consequently, attention has naturally turned towards networking as the next frontier. While io_uring provided basic primitives, like send and recv, from early days, their practical application to...
The crash/panic path and all its related machinery were always subject to polemics; it’s an area naturally full of trade-offs, conflicting views and antagonistic goals. From one side we have kdump (also called crash_kexec), that requires a minimum touching before the...
Control groups (or cgroups for short) are one of the most fundamental technologies underpinning our modern love of containerisation and resource control. Back in 2016, we released a complete overhaul of how cgroups work internally: cgroup v2, released with Linux 4.5....
Scheduling is a notoriously difficult problem. An effective scheduler should fully utilize a system, while also optimizing for cache locality, while also accounting for real time constraints, while also accounting for battery life and power management, while also...
