Episode

Socket management and Kernel Data structures

Podcast: The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Published: Apr 4, 2025
Duration seconds: 1886
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Summary

Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course This video is an overview of how the operating system kernel does socket management and the different data structures it utilizes to achieve that. timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:38 Socket vs Connections 7:50 SYN and Accept Queue 18:56 Socket Sharding 23:14 Receive and Send buffers 27:00 Summary