Proceedings of the Linux Symposium Volume
Proceedings of the Linux Symposium Volume Two July 19th–22nd, 2006 Ottawa, Ontario Canada Contents Evolution in Kernel Debugging using Hardware Virtualization With Xen 1 Nitin A. Kamble Improving Linux Startup Time Using Software Resume (and other techniques) 17 Hiroki Kaminaga Automated Regression Hunting 27 A. Bowen, P. Fox, J. Kenefick, A. Romney, J. Ruesch, J. Wilde, & J. Wilson Hacking the Linux Automounter—Current Limitations and Future Directions 37 Ian Maxwell Kent & Jeff Moyer Why NFS Sucks 51 Olaf Kirch Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64 KB Pages 65 Dave Kleikamp and Badari Pulavarty Startup Time in the 21st Century: Filesystem Hacks and Assorted Tweaks 71 Benjamin C.R. LaHaise Using Hugetlbfs for Mapping Application Text Regions 75 H.J. Lu, K. Doshi, R. Seth, & J. Tran Towards a Better SCM: Revlog and Mercurial 83 Matt Mackall Roadmap to a GL-based composited desktop for Linux 91 K.E. Martin and K. Packard Probing the Guts of Kprobes 101 A. Mavinakayanahalli, P. Panchamukhi, J. Keniston, A. Keshavamurthy, & M. Hiramatsu Shared Page Tables Redux 117 Dave McCracken Extending RCU for Realtime and Embedded Workloads 123 Paul E. McKenney OSTRA: Experiments With on-the-fly Source Patching 139 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Design and Implementation to Support Multiple Key Exchange Protocols for IPsec 143 K. Miyazawa, S. Sakane, K. Kamada, M. Kanda, & A. Fukumoto The State of Linux Power Management 2006 151 Patrick Mochel I/O Workload Fingerprinting in the Genetic-Library 165 Jake Moilanen X86-64 XenLinux: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimizations 173 Jun Nakajima, Asit Mallick GCC—An Architectural Overview, Current Status, and Future Directions 185 Diego Novillo Shared-Subtree Concept, Implementation, and Applications in Linux 201 Al Viro & Ram Pai The Ondemand Governor 215 Venkatesh Pallipadi & Alexey Starikovskiy Linux Bootup Time Reduction for Digital Still Camera 231 Chan-Ju Park A Lockless Pagecache in Linux—Introduction, Progress, Performance 241 Nick Piggin The Ongoing Evolution of Xen 255 I.
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