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Dan Siemon
Personal blog · coverfire.com/articlessystemsprogramming
Dan Siemon's personal blog at coverfire.com covers systems and programming. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Queueing in Linux Network Stack”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Articles explaining the Linux network stack, including an introduction to its queues. HN commenters link them as background reading on network queueing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Things that interest me
Most-linked posts?
- Queueing in Linux Network Stack5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-12-05
- Queueing in the Linux Network Stack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-08
What Hacker News says?
Interesting article. Another related article I found interesting: https://www.coverfire.com/articles/queueing-in-the-linux-net... Discusses some of the queues in the Linux network stack.
Comment linking /articles/queueing-in-the-linux-network-stack/
on “Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Modern NIC (2016)”Submitted Queueing in the Linux Network Stack as a story · 110 points
HN discussion> Does anyone have resources for someone who doesn't know that much about networking justifying these statements? This introduction on queues in the linux network stack is pretty neat: http://www.coverfire.com/articles/queueing-in-the-linux-netw... While apenwarr themselves have written a bit about bandwidth v latency, featuring bufferbloat and fq_codel : https://apenwarr.ca/log/20180808 > Why do we know these thing…
Comment linking /articles/queueing-in-the-linux-network-stack/
on “Things we finally know about network queues (2017)”Submitted Queueing in Linux Network Stack as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Queueing in the Linux Network Stack as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Queueing in the Linux Network Stack (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Queuing in the Linux Network Stack as a story · 1 points
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