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Google DeepMind's pre-training lead Vlad Feinberg highlights kernel development and low-level performance engineering as high-demand skills for frontier AI labs.
Hugging Face is inviting kernel developers to publish their custom kernels on the Hugging Face Hub via 🤗 Kernels, offering benefits like consistent build structure, ease of use, standardized distribution, and reproducibility.
This article covers recent improvements and future plans for the Linux kernel's swap subsystem, including reduced per-page overhead, folio-based helpers, and efforts to make swapping more friendly to solid-state storage, as discussed at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit.
A technical overview of implementing an NVMe driver for the Maestro operating system, covering PCIe interface, queues, and memory-mapped I/O details.
Paul McKenney discusses unconventional and corner-case RCU (Read-Copy-Update) implementations, including timed-wait RCU approaches used in early Unix systems and fixed-buffer RCU concepts related to memory quarantining, illustrating creative but potentially dangerous synchronization techniques in kernel development.