Eric Lowe,
Staff Engineer
SunSolaris
Austin, Texas
“The Internals of DTrace”
Bio:
Eric Lowe is a staff engineer in the Solaris Kernel Development group at Sun Microsystems. Eric has worked on virtual memory in Sun engineering for over five years, participating in NUMA optimizations, large page support, and SPARC platform-specific virtual memory handling improvements. Eric is currently co-lead/architect of the completely new Solaris virtual memory system, codenamed "gemsbak".
MAY 4th, 2006 - 1:30 pm cst
ACES Building, Room 6.304
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract:
Modern operating system advanced topics: DTrace. The kernel internals of the Solaris Dynamic Tracing facility ("DTrace") will be examined. DTrace is more than just a tool -- it is an extensible framework, making it an interesting case study in applied software engineering. In addition, several of the DTrace providers exploit features unique to the hardware architectures on which they run, making their algorithms interesting case studies.