Kernel 7.0 didn't need to be a big deal. It went ahead and became one anyway.

Many market sectors, such as financial trading, defense, industry automation and gaming, long have had a need for low latencies and deterministic response time. Traditionally, custom-built hardware ...

Sometimes you read an article headline and you find yourself re-reading it a few times before diving into the article. This was definitely the case for a recent blog post by [The HFT Guy], where the ...

Bugs in the Linux scheduler can cause performance degradation in heavily multithreaded loads, but a do-it-yourself fix is available The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a multicore ...

An AWS engineer has reported PostgreSQL throughput dropping to 0.51x on Linux 7.0 after a kernel preemption change, with no ...

Back in early November 2001, I started following a discussionbetween two factions of the Linux kernel community. The gist of thediscussion was over what was the best solution to the Linux ...

As work began on the 2.5 Linux kernel tree back in December 2001, there was a lot of talk in the community about scaling. Linux had begun to appear in some of the roles traditionally filled by larger ...

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