Karthick ARMy Marathon Debut at Oakland, 2014I ran my first marathon at Oakland,CA on March 23rd, 2014. I did reasonably well for a first timer to finish at 3 hrs, 42 mins, 4 seconds…7 min read·Jan 11, 2016----
Karthick ARAllocate only memory-groups for scatter-gather storageRecently we wrote a simple but generic memory group for scatter-gather storage which could be just freed collectively in one single shot…5 min read·Jan 11, 2016----
Karthick ARUsing static branch prediction with gccRecently I extended my heap manager for our product to have some runtime fencing code to be enabled based on an environment variable to…5 min read·Jan 11, 2016----
Karthick ARScalable anon-vma in linux kernel 2.6.34While getting in touch recently with an ex-colleague and friend of mine — Vikram Shenoy, he mentioned about the interesting Linux Kernel…10 min read·Jan 11, 2016----
Karthick ARTicket SpinlocksSpinlocks as the name suggests, is a kind of lock where you spin until you own the lock.4 min read·Jan 11, 2016----
Karthick ARExamining Futexes and how it tackles THUNDERING HERDA friend of mine had posted a futex query in a google mailing list named:apartition which mainly comprises of my friends. It was basically…7 min read·Jun 9, 2010----