A new interface for implementing device drivers outside the kernel has one project saving about 5,000 lines of code. The concept of supporting user-space drivers has appeared on LWN a few times before ...

I believe the best and worst thing about Linux is its hard distinction between kernel space and user space. Without that distinction, Linux never would have become the most leveraged operating system ...

A new set of Linux scheduler features would allocate CPU time fairly among the users on the system. The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) was merged for the 2.6.23 kernel. One CFS feature which did not ...

There's an effort under way to reduce and ultimately remove all system call invocations from within kernel space. Dominik Brodowski was leading this effort, and he posted some patches to remove a lot ...

This new technical paper titled “AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time” is from researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Note, this is a ...