Socket management and Kernel Data structures
Apr 04, 2025•31 min
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Episode description
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
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