Linux Kernel

Documents

• PDF "Performance Tuning and Evaluation for Scalability Enhancement (FS improvement and P4 Performance Problem)"
  The presentation slides at the meetings of Linux Scalability Effort, November 2002, in Japan. This presentation shows our tuned linux kernel "FFL(Fine-grain Filesystem Locks)-kernel" and the performance problem of Linux SMP system based on the Pentium 4 or Xeon processors.(15 pages, 118KB)
• PDF "Speeding Up Kernel Scheduler by Reducing Cache Misses - Effects of cache coloring for a task structure - "
  The presentation slides at "USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2002 FREENIX Track", June 2002.(22 pages, 1,125KB)
• PDF "Optimizing Linux Kernel for NUMA"
  The presentation slides at "NUMA-on Linux Technical Meeting" (one of the meetings of Linux Scalability Effort), March 2001.(18 pages, 267KB)
• PDF "Speeding up kernel scheduler by reducing cache misses"
  Analysis of scheduler bottlenecks for enterprise workloads on Linux. We propose and evaluate the experimental implementation of cache coloring for task structures on the Linux kernel 2.4.x.(8 pages, 147KB)