In recent years the types of memory supported by the Linux Operating system have multiplied. In addition to DRAM and NUMA systems we now have various forms of non volatile RAM, Memory areas on accelerators (f.e. on GPU, ManyCore and FPGAs) and more is on the horizon. This talk gives an overview of the memory technologies available, shows the advantages and explains how such memory is managed and handled in Linux.
Christoph Lameter is working as a lead in research and development for Jump Trading LLC (an algorithmic trading company) in Chicago and maintains the slab allocators and the per cpu subsystems in the Linux Kernel. He contributed to a number of Linux projects since the initial kernel... Read More →
