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Posted 2011/04/25

Fugly kernel

I was working on our test cluster Dori today when I noticed the name of the kernel the headnode was running:

This kernel was one of the ones hand rolled by Matt Tolentino to prototype memory offligning in Linux. Supposedly it was not the most beautiful bit of code ever written :)