Dave talked with Linda Wang, Senior Software Engineering Manager with Red Hat. Her team handles memory management, scheduling, kdump, and all that gnarly low-level stuff. Learn how kpatch was created because of a missed conference call, and get some tips from Linda on how to participate in kernel development.

Highlights

• We’re adding Snappy compression in the kernel
• How containers are supported by kernel namespace, control groups, systemd, and SELinux – and why Docker is a big deal.
• Linda missed a conference call, so now we’re supporting kpatch. She did a whole session on it.
• Check out the RHEL Roadmap session
• Auto NUMA balancing
• Get the RHEL 7 Release Candidate!