For most UNIX systems, Linux included, device drivers typically divide the work of processing interrupts into two parts or halves. The first part, the top half, is the familiar interrupt handler, ...
The Hierarchical Token Buckets (HTB) queuing discipline, part of the Linux set of traffic control functions, is a mechanism that provides QoS capabilities and is useful for fine-tuning TCP traffic ...
I've found myself having do some socket programming in the linux kernel. (yes, yes, I know: have I thought about user space? Yes, that's where I've prototyped my code. This is a research project that ...