Socket management and Kernel Data structures

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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