Background
In an ideal world, memory management provides the optimal placement of data objects under accurate predictions of future data access. Current practical implementations, however, rely on coarse information and heuristics to keep the instrumentation overhead minimal. A number of memory management optimization works were therefore proposed, based on the finer-grained...
Most Linux syscall design conventions have been established through trial and
error. One well-known example is the missing flag argument in a range of
syscalls that triggered the addition of a revised version of theses syscalls.
Nowadays, adding a flag argument to keep syscalls extensible is an accepted
convention recorded in our kernel docs.
In this session we'd like to propose and...
The long process of converting the kernel's documentation into RST is
finally coming to an end...what has that bought us? We have gone from a
chaotic pile of incomplete, crufty, and un-integrated docs to a slightly
better organized pile of incomplete, crufty, slightly better integrated
docs. Plus we have the infrastructure to make something better from here.
What are the next steps...
