In this talk, Davidlohr will present different alternatives to kernel performance monitoring through automation and will discuss how it can serve to actively detect regressions and new issues throughout the kernel, including how developers can easily test their changes on a wide range of workloads and gather important runtime metrics.

This talk will cover the Linux kernel limits in terms of small packet networking performance, efforts to push those limits further, and tips and tricks to get the most out of the networking stack. (slides)

This presentation discusses various performance related kernel patches that can help improving performance and scalability in large multi-core systems and best practices to avoid this type of performance problems in user applications. (slides)

This presentation will cover the highlights of the discussions of the most recent MM the summit and summarize their aftermath both on the mailing list and upstream.

This talk will present lessons learned while creating tons userspace interfaces for the drm subsystem and its gpu drivers.