Among the many changes merged for 5.13 can be found performance improvements throughout the kernel. This work does not always stand out the way that new features do, but it is vitally important for ...

I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

Kernel developers must keep in mind many constraints which are unique to that programming environment; one of those is that memory allocations become less reliable as they get larger. Single-page ...