[Linux Journal, 2004] Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers
Friday, December 18th, 2009Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers
Archive for the 'kernel' Category
Kernel Korner – Linux as an Ethernet Bridge
Friday, December 18th, 2009LinuxJournal ’2005 article about how to bridge 2 network interfaces in linux
LXR / The Linux Cross Reference
Friday, November 20th, 2009linux kernel code cross-reference: you can quickly look up a piece of code,, find out in what version it appeared first, and so on.
Receive packet steering [LWN.net]
Thursday, November 19th, 2009notes from LWN about RPS patch — a way to distribute incoming traffic coming from 1 source (1 NIC, 1 queue, 1 IRQ line) via multiple CPU by hashing tcp headers and distributing by hash across multiple CPU/Cores
Re: [Xen-devel] Red Hat dropped XEN – Xen Source [post about XEN versioning in RHEL 5]
Monday, November 9th, 2009note from redhat engineer explaining what version of xen is used in RHEL 5.x (this is not that simple, hence this post)
[OOM Killer Saga] Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don’t kill my xlock [LWN.net]
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009whenever your are in discussion about OOM, make sure you mention this 
Optimizing Linux for random I/O on hardware RAID – Fishpool
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009explains use linux IO scheulers with presence of smart RAID controllers.
Bug 484667 – Dropping packets in bnx2 since 1.7.9 bnx2 version
Sunday, April 26th, 2009issue with dropped packets on newer broadcomm ethernet cards, found in dell 1950III servers
Re: [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support [LWN.net] / difference between XEN and KVM /
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Message to Kernel Mailing List about differences between XEN and KVM .
Memory Translation and Segmentation : Gustavo Duarte
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info