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Wednesday, August 24 • 11:55am - 12:45pm
Enhancing the Linux Radix Tree - Matthew Wilcox, Microsoft

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The Linux Radix Tree is a fundamental part of the Linux page cache. Recently we decided that in order to support huge pages effectively, it would be necessary to modify the Radix Tree to support ranges of values mapping to a single entry. What seemed like a few days of work turned into many weeks as we discovered more and more corner cases which needed to be handled. During that time we discovered an unmaintained test suite and added it to the Linux kernel, along with adding many test cases for functionality old and new.
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Matthew Wilcox

Kernel Hacker, Oracle
Matthew has been a Linux kernel hacker since 1998. His projects have included file locking, PA-RISC and Itanium, SCSI, NVM Express and persistent memory. He is a regular speaker at Linux conferences. He currently works for Oracle on a variety of Linux kernel projects.

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Wednesday August 24, 2016 11:55am - 12:45pm EDT
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