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medawsonjron Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.jabperf.com/blog/

Started it a couple years ago. I post mostly about topics in the area of IT Performance Engineering, with more emphasis on low latency than on high throughput.

medawsonjron My Fear of Commitment to the First CPU Core

Hi, I'm the author. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and pleasantly surprised that Tanel posted it already. I was right in the middle of posting it myself an hour ago when I noticed it had been posted and had fostered a discussion already :)

medawsonjron Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown

Or better yet, Mellanox VMA since it's open source (unlike Solarflare OpenOnload) and the NICs are far less expensive.

medawsonjron Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing

It's configurable via MSR. You can also disable it system-wide or on a PCIe port basis. I detailed it all here:

https://www.jabperf.com/skip-the-line-with-intel-ddio/