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

Let’s start by revisiting what we know. We know that Solaris implements a two-layer threads model. The model defines thread abstractions at both the kernel and user layers, and user threads are ...

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

For most UNIX systems, Linux included, device drivers typically divide the work of processing interrupts into two parts or halves. The first part, the top half, is the familiar interrupt handler, ...

Part of the fun of working with truly large machines is that one gets to discover new scalability surprises before anybody else. So the SGI folks often have more fun than many of the rest of us. Their ...

Express Logic, renowned provider of advanced run-time solution for deeply embedded applications, recently added Kernel-Aware Debug Support for ARM DS-5 Development Tools in order to provide greater ...