Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

I did ask for it 🙂

I used to love the little Lemmings. And now they’re back!

Give us your tired, your poor, your Calgary IOMMU bugs!

ladypine and I got married yesterday. Words cannot express the joy that fills my heart ever since we’ve met.

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don’t just say

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

I’m reviewing a paper at the moment which has the following sentence:

“… is still a single point of failure, because box failures (e.g., cable disconnection, flood, coffee spill) …”

Must – resist – snarky – reviewer – comment – “coffee spill is just a private example of a flood.”

Calgary IOMMU support has been merged into 2.6.18.

/me does the happy happy joy joy dance

We also have a couple of new trees up for Xen IOMMU support on xenbits. I’ll populate them tomorrow and post more info.

My Impressions from USENIX ’06, as presented earlier today to the Systems Research Seminar at the lab. Key take away message: this was fun, lets do it again!

I’m in Boston for Usenix ’06 and FAST-OS. Say hi if you’re in the area!

Our paper ‘Loosely Coupled TCP Acceleration Architecture’ has been accepted to Hot Interconnects 14.

How To Interpret Red Marks. Someone should prepare a version of this suitable for reviewing patches.

Con – You are making a conjecture that something is actually a problem, whereas you should be presenting numbers that show that it is.

WMD – Whitespace of Mass Destruction.

Viro – Insert witty yet blistering flame. Alternative usage: “you have a race here”.

Crack – please pass some of the crack being handed out at your group around so that the reviewers may more easily see your point of view.