Arjan Van De Ven is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Intel.
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Whether or not the graphics subsystem is part of the operating system's kernel or not is highly controversial, and popular opinion seems to change over time. For example, a certain other major OS has had graphics in, and then out of, the kernel several times now.
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Arjan Van De Ven shines some light on the issues, projects, and techniques that characterize kernel performance.
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Power consumption is a hot topic — from laptop, to datacenter. Recently, the Linux kernel has made huge steps forward in power conservation, thanks to tickless kernels.
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Power consumption is a hot topic — from laptop, to datacenter. Recently, the Linux kernel has made huge steps forward in power conservation. This article focuses on the so-called "tickless idle" feature being integrated into the 2.6.21 and 2.6.23 kernel versions.
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