Links

• A Short Guide to Motherboard Parts and Their Functions
• What is a CPU
• What is a CPU Socket
• What is Hyper-Threading
• How to Build Your Own PC
• Difference Between Multi-Core and Multi-Processor
• System Bus
• [] What’s New in CPUs Since the 80s
• Scaling the Linux Networking Stack
• Queueing in the Linux Network Stack
• [] How to Optimize Code for x86 and x86_64
• LinuxBoot Explained
• Kernel Bypass for Higher Speed Network
• Improving Linux Networking Performance – how to process a packet in 120ns
  • CPU budget per packet: 1230ns for 10Gb NICs, and 120ns for 100Gb
  • Why is the kernel networking stack slow?
    • 16ns per spinlock/spinunlock cycle –> lockless!
    • 32ns per cache miss –> SKB
    • 70ns per slab allocation (particularly in the RX path) –> Networking specific MM?
• Implementing Circular Buffer in C
• [] Detailed Design of a Lock Free Multi-Producer Multi-Consumer Queue
• [] Race Condition in Reading RTC Timekeeping Registers
• BPF vs Loadable Kernel Modules
• [] Learn Vimscript the Hard Way