kernel.md

Kernel

• kernel features

  • [xdp]

• Linux Kernel Map

• Why mmap is faster than system calls

  • Great explanation of what syscalls are

• Discovering and exploring mmap using Go

  • [golang]

• [translation-layer]

Many hardware features need to be supported by the kernel - this creates issues with linux and open source

• [linux-hardware-support]

WindowsNT

• Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
  • WSL1 translated linux calls to windows calls and had a single kernal
    • You could see linux process's in the windows process tree
  • WSL2 is just a co-resident kernel (a separate vm)
  • [bsd] did the translation layer years ago in reverse