Sessions


Talk(s)

Why Syscalls Fail: Bilateral Commit at the Linux Kernel/Userspace Boundary

Speakers: Paul Borrill and Manav Singhai

AF_XDP copy mode needs more love

Speaker: Jason Xing

RPC Latency Breaker: Where Did My RPC Time Go?

Speakers: Satish Kumar and Fam Zheng

Accelerating Software RDMA (RXE) with Netkit and Devmem

Speaker: Yanjun.Zhu

Performance Comparison of Transport Mechanisms for LLM Inference KVCache Transfers

Speakers: Jamal Hadi Salim and Pedro Tammela and Victor Nogueira

Kernel shared memory socket transport

Speaker: David Wei

Linux QUIC: Bringing a Modern Secure Transport into the Kernel

Speaker: Xin Long

Validation and Evaluation of HyStart++ for Linux

Speakers: Maryam Ataei Kachooei and Zimraan Ahmad and Joshua Solomon and Clive Thompson and Jae Won Chung and Benjamin Peters and Feng Li and Mark Claypool

One Layer Deeper: The 10-Layer Cake Under a Linux Network Interface

Speaker: Jesse Brandeburg

improving debuggability of nommu code with UML

Speaker: Hajime Tazaki

Securing IOAM in the Linux Kernel: Toward Trustworthy In Situ Network Telemetry

Speakers: Maxime Goffart and Emilien Wansart and Benoit Donnet

The CXL Fabric End-Game: Bandwidth Realities and Networked Memory for AI Scale

Speaker: PJ Waskiewicz

Can Homa and TCP Get Along?

Speaker: John Ousterhout

Tempesta xFW: open-source eBPF-based volumetric DDoS protection

Speaker: Alexander Krizhanovsky

Thrice the charm: an skb extension for BPF metadata

Speaker: Jakub Sitnicki

Rakaia: Scalable In-Kernel Scheduling for TCP-Based RPCs

Speakers: Rui Yang and Konstantinos Prasopoulos and Edouard Bugnion

Scripting Netfilter with Lua: A Cooperative Kernel-Userspace Pipeline

Speakers: Lourival Vieira Neto and Md. Shehar Yaar Tausif and Firas Shaari and Marcel S. A. de Moura and Arif Alam

MACsec-Protected RDMA on DPUs: From Linux Netdev State to Workload Scheduling

Speakers: Alkama hasan and Vijay Ram Inavolu

DPU-Offloaded TLS Termination and Session Routing for Stateful MCP Traffic

Speakers: Balakrishna Bhamidipati and Vijay Ram Inavolu

TCP State of the union (2026)

Speaker: Eric Dumazet

io_uring ZCRX: Progress and Next Steps

Speaker: Pavel Begunkov

Networking Headless CXL Devices for AI Memory Services

Speakers: Vijay Inavolu and Gaurav Agarwal

Line-Rate Cybersecurity: Modern DPI and Encrypted Traffic Fingerprinting at 100 Gbps

Speakers: Luca Deri and Alfredo Cardigliano

Network Precision Time with Data-plane Timestamping & Hardware-backed Scheduling

Speakers: David Zage and Christopher S Hall and Srinivasan S Iyengar and Sreedevi Joshi and Priyalee Kushwaha

IPU OS - Linux distribution for Intel IPUs

Speakers: Namrata Limaye and Krishna Ganugapati and Jeffrey B Shaw and Mateo Guzman

Toward Host-Pluggable Congestion Control for RDMA/IP Datacenter Transports

Speaker: Vivek Kashyap

Promise Networks: Why a Bilateral Link Layer Solves Congestion Control at the Source

Speakers: Anjali Singhai-Jain and Chihjen Chang and Paul Borrill and David Zage

Resilient AI Supercomputer Networking using MRC and SRv6

Speakers: Christoph Paasch and and many more

Tutorial(s)

Workshop(s)

XDP Workshop

Chair: Alexander Lobakin

What's next for the PSP Security Protocol.

Chair: Willem de Bruijn

SRV6 Workshop

Chair: Stefano Salsano

Device Driver Workshop

Chair: Paolo Abeni

Bof(s)

Keynote(s)

LLMs and the kernel security process

Speaker: Greg Kroah-Hartman