For full details on the 2006 Linux Symposium, please visit the main site, linuxsymposium.org.
Authors retain copyright to all submitted papers, but have granted unlimited redistribution rights to all as a condition of submission.
| Volume One (PDF) | 7960KB | 450 Pages |
| Volume Two (PDF) | 9856KB | 436 Pages |
| File | Title | Author(s) | Size | Pages |
| accardi-reprint.pdf | Enabling Docking Station Support for the Linux Kernel | Kristen Carlson Accardi | 183KB | 12 |
| airlie-reprint.pdf | Open Source Graphic Drivers---They Don't Kill Kittens | David M. Airlie | 147KB | 10 |
| almesberger-reprint.pdf | kboot---A Boot Loader Based on Kexec | Werner Almesberger | 271KB | 14 |
| alt-reprint.pdf | Ideas on improving Linux infrastructure for performance on multi-core platforms | Maxim Alt | 287KB | 20 |
| bae-reprint.pdf | A Reliable and Portable Multimedia File System | J.-Y. Hwang, J.-K. Bae, A. Kirnasov, M.-S. Jang, & H.-Y. Kim | 191KB | 16 |
| ben-yehuda-reprint.pdf | Utilizing IOMMUs for Virtualization in Linux and Xen | M. Ben-Yehuda, J. Mason, J. Xenidis, O. Krieger, L. Van Doorn, J. Nakajima, A. Mallick, & E. Wahlig | 183KB | 18 |
| bhattacharya-reprint.pdf | Towards a Highly Adaptable Filesystem Framework for Linux | S. Bhattacharya & D. Da Silva | 197KB | 16 |
| biederman-reprint.pdf | Multiple Instances of the Global Linux Namespaces | Eric W. Biederman | 163KB | 14 |
| bligh-reprint.pdf | Fully Automated Testing of the Linux Kernel | M. Bligh & A.P. Whitcroft | 185KB | 16 |
| brown-reprint.pdf | Linux Laptop Battery Life | L. Brown, K.A. Karasyov, V.P. Lebedev, R.P. Stanley, & A.Y. Starikovskiy | 227KB | 22 |
| cagney-reprint.pdf | The Frysk Execution Analysis Architecture | Andrew Cagney | 195KB | 8 |
| cao-reprint.pdf | Evaluating Linux Kernel Crash Dumping Mechanisms | Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao | 230KB | 26 |
| chinner-reprint.pdf | Exploring High Bandwidth Filesystems on Large Systems | Dave Chinner & Jeremy Higdon | 247KB | 18 |
| denijs-reprint.pdf | The Effects of Filesystem Fragmentation | Giel de Nijs, Ard Biesheuvel, Ad Denissen, Niek Lambert | 464KB | 18 |
| desnoyers-reprint.pdf | The LTTng tracer: A low impact performance and behavior monitor for GNU/Linux | M. Desnoyers & M.R. Dagenais | 288KB | 18 |
| dike-reprint.pdf | Linux as a Hypervisor | Jeff Dike | 167KB | 12 |
| domsch-reprint.pdf | System Firmware Updates Utilizing Sofware Repositories | Matt Domsch & Michael Brown | 162KB | 14 |
| drepper-reprint.pdf | The Need for Asynchronous, Zero-Copy Network I/O | Ulrich Drepper | 180KB | 16 |
| eigler-reprint.pdf | Problem Solving With Systemtap | Frank Ch. Eigler | 152KB | 10 |
| eranian-reprint.pdf | Perfmon2: a flexible performance monitoring interface for Linux | Stephane Eranian | 289KB | 22 |
| fasheh-reprint.pdf | OCFS2: The Oracle Clustered File System, Version 2 | Mark Fasheh | 214KB | 16 |
| fujita-reprint.pdf | tgt: Framework for Storage Target Drivers | Tomonori Fujita & Mike Christie | 187KB | 12 |
| getz-reprint.pdf | More Linux for Less | Michael Hennerich & Robin Getz | 2790KB | 22 |
| gleixner-reprint.pdf | Hrtimers and Beyond: Transforming the Linux Time Subsystems | Thomas Gleixner and Douglas Niehaus | 265KB | 16 |
| goater-reprint.pdf | Making Applications Mobile Under Linux | C. Le Goater, D. Lezcano, C. Calmels, D. Hansen, S.E. Hallyn, & H. Franke | 308KB | 24 |
| gorman-reprint.pdf | The What, The Why and the Where To of Anti-Fragmentation | Mel Gorman and Andy Whitcroft | 350KB | 18 |
| hamano-reprint.pdf | GIT---A Stupid Content Tracker | Junio C. Hamano | 161KB | 12 |
| henson-reprint.pdf | Reducing fsck time for ext2 file systems | V. Henson, Z. Brown, T. T'so, & A. van de Ven | 176KB | 16 |
| hill-reprint.pdf | Native POSIX Threads Library (NPTL) Support for uClibc. | Steven J. Hill | 171KB | 14 |
| holtmann-reprint.pdf | Playing BlueZ on the D-Bus | Marcel Holtmann | 154KB | 8 |
| howells-reprint.pdf | FS-Cache: A Network Filesystem Caching Facility | David Howells | 239KB | 16 |
| jones-reprint.pdf | Why Userspace Sucks---Or 101 Really Dumb Things Your App Shouldn't Do | Dave Jones | 158KB | 12 |
| kamble-reprint.pdf | Evolution in Kernel Debugging using Hardware Virtualization With Xen | Nitin A. Kamble | 183KB | 18 |
| kaminaga-reprint.pdf | Improving Linux Startup Time Using Software Resume (and other techniques) | Hiroki Kaminaga | 177KB | 12 |
| kenefick-reprint.pdf | Automated Regression Hunting | A. Bowen, P. Fox, J. Kenefick, A. Romney, J. Ruesch, J. Wilde, & J. Wilson | 150KB | 12 |
| kent-reprint.pdf | Hacking the Linux Automounter---Current Limitations and Future Directions | Ian Maxwell Kent & Jeff Moyer | 193KB | 16 |
| kirch-reprint.pdf | Why NFS Sucks | Olaf Kirch | 179KB | 16 |
| kleikamp-reprint.pdf | Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64 KB Pages | Dave Kleikamp and Badari Pulavarty | 180KB | 8 |
| lahaise-reprint.pdf | Startup Time in the 21st Century: Filesystem Hacks and Assorted Tweaks | Benjamin C.R. LaHaise | 129KB | 6 |
| lu-reprint.pdf | Using Hugetlbfs for Mapping Application Text Regions | H.J. Lu, K. Doshi, R. Seth, & J. Tran | 164KB | 10 |
| mackall-reprint.pdf | Towards a Better SCM: Revlog and Mercurial | Matt Mackall | 166KB | 10 |
| martin-reprint.pdf | Roadmap to a GL-based composited desktop for Linux | K.E. Martin and K. Packard | 155KB | 12 |
| mavinakayanahalli-reprint.pdf | Probing the Guts of Kprobes | A. Mavinakayanahalli, P. Panchamukhi, J. Keniston, A. Keshavamurthy, & M. Hiramatsu | 193KB | 18 |
| mccracken-reprint.pdf | Shared Page Tables Redux | Dave McCracken | 149KB | 8 |
| mckenney-reprint.pdf | Extending RCU for Realtime and Embedded Workloads | Paul E. McKenney | 256KB | 18 |
| melo-reprint.pdf | OSTRA: Experiments With on-the-fly Source Patching | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 130KB | 6 |
| miyazawa-reprint.pdf | Design and Implementation to Support Multiple Key Exchange Protocols for IPsec | K. Miyazawa, S. Sakane, K. Kamada, M. Kanda, & A. Fukumoto | 196KB | 10 |
| mochel-reprint.pdf | The State of Linux Power Management 2006 | Patrick Mochel | 174KB | 16 |
| moilanen-reprint.pdf | I/O Workload Fingerprinting in the Genetic-Library | Jake Moilanen | 207KB | 10 |
| nakajima-reprint.pdf | X86-64 XenLinux: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimizations | Jun Nakajima, Asit Mallick | 222KB | 14 |
| novillo-reprint.pdf | GCC---An Architectural Overview, Current Status, and Future Directions | Diego Novillo | 199KB | 18 |
| pai-reprint.pdf | Shared-Subtree Concept, Implementation, and Applications in Linux | Al Viro & Ram Pai | 504KB | 16 |
| pallipadi-reprint.pdf | The Ondemand Governor | Venkatesh Pallipadi & Alexey Starikovskiy | 223KB | 18 |
| park-reprint.pdf | Linux Bootup Time Reduction for Digital Still Camera | Chan-Ju Park | 306KB | 12 |
| piggin-reprint.pdf | A Lockless Pagecache in Linux---Introduction, Progress, Performance | Nick Piggin | 3300KB | 16 |
| pratt-reprint.pdf | The Ongoing Evolution of Xen | I. Pratt, D. Magenheimer, H. Blanchard, J. Xenidis, J. Nakajima, & A. Liguori | 169KB | 14 |
| reix-reprint.pdf | NFSv4 Test Project | Tony Reix | 489KB | 22 |
| riel-reprint.pdf | Measuring Resource Demand on Linux | Rik van Riel | 214KB | 10 |
| santos-reprint.pdf | Improving the Approach to Linux Performance Analysis | Jose Santos & Guanglei Li | 162KB | 12 |
| schopp-reprint.pdf | Resizing Memory With Balloons and Hotplug | J.H. Schopp, K. Fraser, & M.J. Silbermann | 154KB | 10 |
| schwidefsky-reprint.pdf | Collaborative Memory Management in Hosted Linux Environments | M. Schwidefsky, H. Franke, R. Mansell, H. Raj, D. Osisek, & J.H. Choi | 289KB | 18 |
| siddha-reprint.pdf | Chip Multi Processing aware Linux Kernel Scheduler | Siddha, Pallipadi and Mallick | 372KB | 14 |
| sievers-reprint.pdf | Dynamic Device Handling on the Modern Desktop | K. Sievers & D. Zeuthen | 190KB | 10 |
| sipek-reprint.pdf | Unionfs: User- and Community-Oriented Development of a Unification File System | D. Quigley, J. Sipek, C.P. Wright, & E. Zadok | 238KB | 16 |
| subrahmanyam-reprint.pdf | VMI: An Interface for Paravirtualization | Z. Amsden, D. Arai, D. Hecht, A. Holler, & P. Subrahmanyam | 205KB | 18 |
| suzaki-reprint.pdf | HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix | K. Suzaki, T. Yagi, K. Iijima, K. Kitagawa, S. Tashiro | 835KB | 16 |
| theurer-reprint.pdf | Virtual Scalability: Charting the Performance of Linux in a Virtual World | A. Theurer, K. Rister, O. Krieger, R. Harper, & S. Dobbelstein | 174KB | 12 |
| ufimtsev-reprint.pdf | Automatic System for Linux Kernel Performance Testing | A. Ufimtsev & L. Murphy | 223KB | 8 |
| williams-reprint.pdf | MD RAID Acceleration | Dan J. Williams | 148KB | 8 |
| wong-reprint.pdf | Catalyzing Hardware Driver Development | D.J. Wong, A. Bruemmer, D. Fry, & M. Salyzyn | 201KB | 16 |