Packet queues are a core component of any network stack or device. They allow for asynchronous modules to communicate, increase performance and have the side effect of impacting latency. This article ...

During one of my regular trips to reddit, I stumbled upon an amazingly helpful Linux I/O stack diagram: It's quite comprehensive and it can really help if you're digging through a bottleneck and ...

Stack - Captures high-level lanaguage function calling flow, including call/return sequence, parameter passing, local variable instantiation, return value. Stack allocation is architecture dependent, ...

Back in September, The Register's networking desk chatted to a company called Teclo about the limitations of TCP performance in the Linux stack. That work, described here, included moving TCP/IP ...