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Wednesday, July 8 • 17:30 - 18:00
Reference Counting in Xen: An Introduction - George Dunlap, Citrix

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Xen's basic reference counting system was described in their original paper from 2003. But it has been incrementally modified to add more features over the years, and a similar overall description has not been updated.

This talk will start at the beginning, presenting the basic concepts behind reference counting, and slowly building up the special cases and the purposes behind them.
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George Dunlap

Principal Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D UK Ltd
George Dunlap worked with the Xen project while a graduate student at the University of Michigan before receiving his PhD in 2006, then worked as a core Xen developer for many years for Citrix's open-source team in Cambridge, England. He is now community manager and chairman of the... Read More →

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Wednesday July 8, 2020 17:30 - 18:00 CEST
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