Practical Guidance to Make Your Tier-1 SQL Server Roar
Optimize high-performance tier-1 SQL Server systems with expert guidance on configuration, tuning, and maintenance for modern hardware, covering platform, server, and infrastructure considerations.
ION - dma-buf Allocators - Constraint Solving
Roundtable on ION/dma-buf allocators and constraint solving, discussing centralized vs device-specific allocators, userland device constraint discovery, and potential iommu/dma-api extensions.
GCMA - Guaranteed Contiguous Memory Allocator
Explore the Guaranteed Contiguous Memory Allocator (GCMA) for Linux, its design principles, implementation challenges, and potential performance benefits for memory-intensive applications.
Heterogeneous Memory Management
Explore heterogeneous computing challenges, focusing on unified address spaces, memory management, and data placement across CPUs and parallel devices like GPUs.
XArray
Explore XArray's capabilities, conversions from radix trees and IDA, potential replacements for list_head, and future improvements for broader application in Linux kernel development.
OOMD - A Userspace OOM Killer
Explore oomd, a userspace OOM killer that outperforms the Linux kernel OOM killer. Learn about its effectiveness, flexibility, and resource utilization improvements.
Reworking of KVA Allocator in Linux Kernel
Exploración detallada de las mejoras en el asignador KVA del kernel Linux, abordando problemas de fragmentación y rendimiento con nuevos esquemas de asignación y ubicación de memoria.
OOMD2 and Beyond - A Year of Improvements
Explore oomd2's advancements in handling out-of-memory scenarios, including new features, deployments, and a redesigned control plane for improved system stability and performance.
Android - MC
Explore Android development insights and best practices in this comprehensive session from the Linux Plumbers Conference, covering key topics and advanced techniques.
Killing the mmap_sem's Contention
Exploring strategies to reduce contention on the mmap_sem in Linux systems, focusing on split lock mechanisms and potential use of Maple Trees to replace VMA structures.
Malloc for Everyone and Beyond NUMA
Exploring memory management in heterogeneous computing, addressing challenges beyond NUMA, and proposing a unified API for diverse memory types in modern systems.
Maple Tree
Explore the Maple Tree data structure, its advantages over Red-Black and Radix trees, and its potential applications in kernel development for efficient range storage and retrieval.
Memory Management Bits in Arch
Explore memory management in Linux architectures, focusing on code duplication, common patterns, and potential optimizations for improved efficiency and maintainability.
Killing the Mmap_Sem's Contention
Exploring solutions to reduce mmap_sem contention in large systems, focusing on split lock mechanisms and Maple Tree implementation to improve memory management scalability.
Replacing mmap_sem with Finer Grained Locks
Explora la sustitución de mmap_sem por bloqueos más precisos en el kernel de Linux, analizando problemas actuales, mitigaciones y propuestas para una implementación progresiva de bloqueos de grano fino en la gestión de memoria.
Containers and Checkpoint - Restore MC
Explore container technologies, checkpoint/restore, and advanced Linux features in this comprehensive session covering namespaces, userspace allocation, and system integration.
VFIO - IOMMU - PCI MC
Explore advanced Linux kernel technologies for device passthrough, I/O virtualization, and PCI management in this comprehensive technical session from LPC 2021.
Direct Map Management
Explore direct map management in Linux, covering use cases, performance, mappings, data access, and implementation concerns for efficient memory handling.
VFIO IOMMU PCI MC
Explore advanced Linux virtualization techniques focusing on VFIO, IOMMU, and PCI passthrough for enhanced system performance and security.
The Case for Memory Segregation
Explore memory segregation in Linux systems, covering security assumptions, challenges, and solutions like isolation and compound pages. Learn about Project Underground and future directions.
Consolidating Representations of the Physical Memory
Explore physical memory representations in Linux, covering memory maps, hotplug, and KExec. Learn about challenges and future developments in memory management.