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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:34:13 -0500
From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] ACM Operating Systems Review issue on the Linux Kernel available
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We are pleased to announce the availability of the ACM OperatingSystems Review special topics Issue on Research and developments inthe Linux Kernel.  It is available, for free, from the ACM Archivessite:
http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1400097
Included are 12 papers about the advances that have been merged or arecandidates to be merged into the Linux kernel, as well as new ideapapers discussing promising experimental work.
* Minding the gap: R&D in the Linux kernel        by Muli Ben-Yehuda, Eric Van Hensbergen, Marc Fiuczynski* Introducing technology into the Linux kernel: a case study        by Paul E. McKenney, Jonathan Walpole* Extending futex for kernel to user notification        by Helge Bahmann, Konrad Froitzheim* Plan 9 authentication in Linux        by Ashwin Ganti* Towards achieving fairness in the Linux scheduler        by Chee Siang Wong, Ian Tan, Rosalind Deena Kumari, Fun Wey* I/O resource management through system call scheduling        by Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Harald Röck* PipesFS: fast Linux I/O in the unix tradition        by Willem de Bruijn, Herbert Bos* CUBIC: a new TCP-friendly high-speed TCP variant        by Sangtae Ha, Injong Rhee, Lisong Xu* On the design of a new Linux readahead framework        by WU Fengguang, XI Hongsheng, XU Chenfeng* Practical techniques for purging deleted data using liveness information        by David Boutcher, Abhishek Chandra* virtio: towards a de-facto standard for virtual I/O devices        by Rusty Russell* Virtual servers and checkpoint/restart in mainstream Linux        by Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Eric W. Biederman, Serge Hallyn, Daniel Lezcano
On behalf of my co-editors, I would like to extend our thanks to themany authors who submitted papers, including the ones we were unableto include in this issue, for the time and eﬀort they put into theirsubmissions.  We would also like to thank the members of our EditorialCommittee who did a very thorough job of evaluating the submissionsand who also shared shepherding responsibilities for the acceptedpapers. Listed in alphabetical order, the Editorial Committee is:
* Patrick Bridges (University of New Mexico)* Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto)* Hubertus Franke (IBM Research)* Oren Laadan (Columbia University)* Paul McKenney (IBM Linux Technology Center)* Chris Mason (Oracle)* Ron Minnich (Sandia National Laboratory)* Stephen C. Tweedie (Red Hat)* Chris Wright (Red Hat)* Pete Wyckoﬀ (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
The editorial committee was ably assisted by the following external reviewers:* Sapan Bhatia (Princeton University)* Eli Brosh (Columbia University)* Fernando Laudares Camargos (Universite de Sherbrooke)* Steven Muir (Vanu)* Ram Pai (IBM Linux Technology Center)* David Pressoto (Google)* Edi Shmueli (IBM Haifa Research Lab)* Ben-Ami Yassour (IBM Haifa Research Lab)
We would also like to thank the Operating Systems Review editor,Jeanna Matthews, and ACM SIGOPS for supporting a special topics issueon the Linux Kernel -- and ACM for making the issue freely available.
Best regards,
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