Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory

Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025

Yesterday we concluded the live session on live coding a bytecode compiler and interpreter (VM) for a tiny subset of Python in Python. Even though I said I will not be sharing the recording, I think the session went quite smooth so I am sharing it here.

Understand how context switching affects CPU registers, caches, TLB, and pipeline performance, and learn strategies to mitigate performance penalties

We are due for our next live session.

How the kernels implement the fork system call