How nice of the Trump camp to help publicize Gov. Tim Walz's compassionate and common-sense policy of providing free menstrual products to students in Minnesota public schools! Let's do this everywhere.

Linux perf office hours tomorrow: lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-use…

Agreed, truth shouldn’t be suppressed. Which is why it’s best not to dump it in a landfill site, pour over it a slurry of half-truths, misinformation, insults, blatant lies, random speculation and conspiracy, and then above that stinking mess type the word ‘True.’

Bolt and propeller are going head-to-head in the kernel at LPC 2024: lpc.events/event/18/sessi…

Wow, LLVM has many office hours including for new contributors: llvm.org/docs/GettingIn…

We are hiring Managers and Engineers for our server efficiency teams. If you are interested in compilers, low-level libraries, ML, then let us know. We are hiring in the Bay Area, Seattle, NY and London. The job description is available here: metacareers.com/jobs/448764311…

Perf inject fixes wrt build ids. Add a new -B option that drops mmap events if there are no samples. Can halve or more the size of certain kinds of perf.data file: lore.kernel.org/lkml/202408170…

"The upcoming ARL-H hybrid processor contains 2 different atom uarchs which have different PMU capabilities." Along with the performance cores this will be 3 core types (cpu_core, cpu_atom, cpu_lowpower). CPUs are becoming increasingly heterogeneous. lore.kernel.org/lkml/202408200…

2nd time of the day I'm thinking, in regard to embedded software, that not having good iterators is a major source of off-by-one errors.

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linu…

The eBPF Foundation is funding five #eBPF research projects! Three are about improving and verifying the eBPF verifier; one is about enabling application offloading into eBPF. I'm really excited about all of them! ebpf.foundation/ebpf-foundatio…

New set of patches allowing perf to, amongst other things, monitor hwmon values like CPU temperature, fan speeds and energy usage: lore.kernel.org/lkml/202409070…

The 2024 remix of Big Wedge is now on my YouTube channel! youtu.be/NhXX5L2hB_s

Wow, enjoying hearing my work as an (AI) podcast. This feels like a really good reviewer tool, it certainly got at the main points of the paper better than the reviews the paper received. illuminate.google.com/library?play=4…

Time for another Aer Lingus flight to LPC. Tracing and perf mini conference is a week tomorrow.

Flying into sunny Manchester got a view of the Etihad being extended. Next week Vienna (the continent) the Danube has flood warnings.