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Socket management and Kernel Data structures

Socket management and Kernel Data structures

Update: 2025-04-04
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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.

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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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Socket management and Kernel Data structures

Socket management and Kernel Data structures

Hussein Nasser