Archive for the 'kernel' Category

Appendix G. KVM Virtual Machine Timing Management

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Summary: append to VM’s kernel, for i386,i686 => ‘divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm’, for x86_64 => ‘divider=10 notsc’
This is needed to fix the drifting clock issue on VMs that are not using pv_clock driver

Appendix G. KVM Virtual Machine Timing Management

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Summary: append to VM’s kernel, for i386,i686 => ‘divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm’, for x86_64 => ‘divider=10 notsc’
This is needed to fix the drifting clock issue on VMs that are not using pv_clock driver

Configuring Multiple Default Routes in Linux « Darien Kindlund’s Blog

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

Configuring Multiple Default Routes in Linux « Darien Kindlund’s Blog

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

Configuring Multiple Default Routes in Linux « Darien Kindlund’s Blog

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

Kernel.org hacked ! // From: J.H. <[email protected]> Subject: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master back-end break-in

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Kernel.org machines were hacked into, possibly via stolen credentials. Investigation is underway.

Thanks to GIT crypt-signing each commit, there is no danger to linux kernel code.

Kernel.org hacked ! // From: J.H. <[email protected]> Subject: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master back-end break-in

Monday, September 12th, 2011

A Tale of Four Kernels

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Quote from the article: “Therefore,
the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is
that open source development approaches do not produce
software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software
development.”

A subjective code quality …

[note about ipv6 stateful firewall in linux] ] ‘Re: ip6tables icmp conntracking on 2.6.18 vs 2.6.24′ – MARC

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

explanation on why `-m state –state ‘ does not work for IPv6 in older kernels

PacketShader – GPU-accelerated Software Router

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Also see http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/io_engine/index.html and http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/2010-lanman-100Gbps.pdf

Using latest x86 hardware and GPU to build a 100GB pc router / possible theoretically, but as of now, is not co…