[linuxkernelnewbies] taskset - retrieve or set a pro cess’s CPU affinity

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
TASKSET(1)    Linux User’s Manual   TASKSET(1) NAME    taskset - retrieve or set a process’s CPU affinity SYNOPSIS    taskset [options] mask command [arg]...    taskset [options] -p [mask] pid DESCRIPTION    taskset  is used to set or retrieve

[linuxkernelnewbies] Direct Memory Access (DMA) and Interrupt Handling

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://www.eventhelix.com/RealtimeMantra/FaultHandling/dma_interrupt_handling.htm DMA and Interrupt Handling In this series on hardware basics, we have already looked at read and write bus cycles. In this article we will cover Direct Memory Access (DMA) and Interrupt Handling. Knowledge of DM

[linuxkernelnewbies] Kernel Log: What's new in 2.6.29 - Part 3: Kernel controlled graphics modes - The H: Security news and Open source developments

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://www.h-online.com/news/Kernel-Log-What-s-new-in-2-6-29-Part-3-Kernel-controlled-graphics-modes--/112431 Kernel Log: What's new in 2.6.29 - Part 3: Kernel controlled graphics modes With the release of 2.6.29-rc1 last weekend, Linus Torvalds concluded the first phase, called the merge win

[linuxkernelnewbies] Kernel Log: main development phase for 2.6.29 ends, new X.org drivers - The H: Security news and Open source developments

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://www.h-online.com/news/Kernel-Log-main-development-phase-for-2-6-29-ends-new-X-org-drivers--/112399 Kernel Log: main development phase for 2.6.29 ends, new X.org drivers With the release of 2.6.29-rc1 on Saturday night, Linus Torvalds has closed the 2.6.29 merge window and brought to a

[linuxkernelnewbies] Kernel Log: What's new in 2.6.29 - Part 2: WiMAX - The H: Security news and Open source developments

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://www.h-online.com/news/Kernel-Log-What-s-new-in-2-6-29-Part-2-WiMAX--/112393 Kernel Log: What's new in 2.6.29 - Part 2: WiMAX In Part 2 of the Kernel Log's coverage of the major changes happening in the main development branch for the Linux kernel 2.6.29 release, we look at a majo

[linuxkernelnewbies] Kernel Log: What's new in 2.6.29 - Part 1: Dodgy Wifi drivers and AP support - The H: Security news and Open source developments

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://www.h-online.com/news/Kernel-Log-What-s-new-in-2-6-29-Part-1-Dodgy-Wifi-drivers-and-AP-support--/112392 Kernel Log: What's new in 2.6.29 - Part 1: Dodgy Wifi drivers and AP support See – Part 2 of Whats new in 2.6.29. Scarcely two weeks after the release of Linux 2.6.28, Linus T

[linuxkernelnewbies] Kernel Log: Morton questions acceptance of Xen Dom0 code; file systems for SSDs - News - The H Open Source: News and Features

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-Morton-questions-acceptance-of-Xen-Dom0-code-file-systems-for-SSDs--/news/112784 Kernel Log: Morton questions acceptance of Xen Dom0 code; file systems for SSDs In his response to the invitation on the Linux Kernel Mailing list (LKML) for comments

[linuxkernelnewbies] pNFS and the Future of File Systems

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3793301 pNFS and the Future of File Systems December 24, 2008 By Drew Robb High-performance file systems such as Panasas PanFS, Sun QFS, Quantum StorNext, IBM GPFS and HP File Services can add plenty of value to storage imple

[linuxkernelnewbies] FAQ - VNUML-WIKI

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://www.dit.upm.es/vnumlwiki/index.php/FAQ VNUML Frequently Asked Questions Authors: David Fernández (david at dit.upm.es) Fermín Galán (galan at dit.upm.es) version 1.7, June 4th, 2004 Contents [hide] 1 Writing the VNUML specification

[linuxkernelnewbies] The world won’t listen » Us er-mode Linux and skas0

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2006/09/13/user-mode-linux-and-skas0/ User-mode Linux and skas0 User-mode Linux (UML) is a port of Linux to its own system call interface. In short, it’s a system that allows to run Linux inside Linux. UML is integrated in the standard Linux tree, so it’s possib

[linuxkernelnewbies] C/C++ Thread Safety Annotatio...

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Teoh
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddqtfwhb_0c49t6zgr C/C++ Thread Safety Annotations Le-Chun Wu Modified:June 9, 2008 Objective This project creates a set of C/C++ program annotations that (1) allow developers to document multi-threaded code so that maintainers can avoid