I have to patch sets for the kernel folks to review, one is the HTCP congestion control algorithm and the other is performance improvements to the kernel TCP transmit code.

The first is also tied in licensing issues and there seems to be a deadlock, the kernel folks are not interested in reviewing it before the licensing is taken care of (and I understand them!) and the officials are in no hurry to solve the licensing until they'll know it will go in. I've context switched to other tasks to see who will break first.

The second set is a set of performance improvement patches initially done by my supervisor Doug Leith, and I'm improving on that now. Part of my work is to port it from 2.6.6 to 2.6.11+ which is what I'm doing now, as well as refactoring the code and throwing away bits I don't think should be there.

I've switched from the original use of web100 to use relayfs and a script to add logging code, loosely based on ideas from Aspect-Oriented-Programming.

I've passed on my journey through using kprobes (cool stuff!), but the overhead blows my code so I'd prefer to avoid it. Kprobes had a bug when placed on a ret instruction which my testing helped uncover. Relayfs had gove some improvements based on my input, so my work is helping others.

And all of that in the name of having clean code so that it will be easier to submit to lkml when I'm done. No measurement code is embedded in my production code at any time.

Thanks to Tom Zanussi for his help with relayfs and the systemtap folks for their help with kprobes.