Hi all, I'm working on a fairly advanced kernel space VPN with some interesting design choices. It's requiring me to dig pretty deep into the networking stack. Admittedly I'm a bit in over my head right now. Does anyone with deep knowledge and experience, especially inside the networking stack, have any interest in mentoring me through this and other kernel-related development puzzles?
As I understand it, Linux is in need of more developers, and I think with a good mentor I could go pretty far, and eventually join the ranks of someone useful to others. What I mean specifically is someone I can poke on instant message from time to time, "hey should I be using skb_dequeue or skb_recv_datagram here?" or "do I want to pop this in the work queue or keep it in softirq?" or "do I need to rcu_deref the qdisc?" or a variety of other intricate questions and considerations. I'm a pretty quick learner and quite devoted, but not all of this is documented and my eyeballs are starting to bleed from reading too many innards; having someone I can actually talk to and mind-meld with would be extremely nice. In case bragging about something makes this a more attractive proposition: I just got avx and avx2 implementations of chacha20poly1305 rolling successfully, which I'm quite proud of. Well, hope to hear from somebody soon! Regards, Jason Donenfeld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
