Linux Weather Forecast
summary
Kernel mainline absorbs ~68,000 change sets over 13 months from ~3,200 developers at ~370 employers, growing by ~1.5M lines of code and releasing on a ~63–80 day cadence; 3.8 peaks at ~12,400 commits and 3.9 hits ~1,339 contributors. 3.8 adds a NUMA balancing framework and merges per-entity load tracking, user namespaces land to enable lightweight containers but expand attack surface, multipath TCP patches exist yet face middlebox deployment issues, and big.LITTLE scheduling patches remain out of mainline.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:14State of the kernel
- 4:35Industry contributors
- 8:01Future kernel features
- 10:42NUMA scheduling
- 14:00Power aware scheduling
- 17:03Heterogeneous computing
- 20:20Kernel development pace
- 23:36Integration challenges
- 25:15Unified kernel benefits
- 28:29Android and mainline
- 30:12Networking innovations
- 33:49Network hostility
- 36:20Namespaces and security
- 38:05Kernel security outlook
- 38:52Innovation and ecosystem
