Linux Kernel

Linux 2.6.32-rc6 Released

Tuesday, 03 November 2009 11:05 Linus Torvalds

It's been over two weeks since -rc5, partly because of a very quiet week there due to lots of kernel people (including me) being in Tokyo for the annual kernel summit, but also partly because we had an annoying problem with ext4 filesystem corruption after unclean shutdowns.

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Autonomously Finding Performance Regressions In The Linux Kernel

Thursday, 22 October 2009 01:24 Phoronix

Last weekend a few Phoronix benchmarks were underway of the Linux 2.6.32-rc5 kernel when a very significant performance regression was spotted.

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Linux Weather Forecast

Monday, 19 October 2009 04:00 corbet

The 2.6.31 kernel was released on September 9. The 2.6.31 development cycle, lasting exactly three months, saw the addition of almost 11,000 individual changes from over 1100 developers representing almost 200 different companies. 2.6.31 has 408,000 more lines of code than 2.6.30.

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Linux 2.6.32-rc5 Released

Thursday, 15 October 2009 18:11 Linus Torvalds

As mentioned in the -rc4 notes, this was a short week for the -rc series, since I'm leaving for the yearly kernel summit tomorrow morning.

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Tuning CFQ - What Station is That?

Wednesday, 14 October 2009 04:11 Linux Magazine

The last article was a quick overview of the 4 schedulers in the Linux kernel. This article takes a closer look at the Completely Fair Queuing (CFQ) scheduler and how you can tune it.

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