The Kernel Report
summary
About 84,000 patches from nearly 5,000 developers add roughly 3.6 million lines of code across six mainline releases; 5.19 fixes bugs reaching back to 4.14 and shows a long tail of old regressions. Kernel work is moving toward io_uring shared-memory rings with registered files/buffers and a user-space block driver (ublk) that matches or beats in-kernel performance. Rust support is imminent but requires nightly features and new tooling, while BPF proliferation and single-maintainer bottlenecks demand more documentation and better development tools.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 2:41Stable updates
- 11:24What's the holdup?
- 18:26Traditional system calls
- 27:10An unparalleled depth of skills and experience
- 32:21Preparing for change
