Jens Axboe

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Jens Axboe
Born September 1, 1976 (1976-09-01) (age 31)
Odense, Denmark
Occupation Software Engineer
Spouse Mette Kjellberg Axboe
Children Jonas Kjellberg Axboe

Jens Axboe is a Linux kernel hacker. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer of the block layer and other block devices, along with contributing the CFQ I/O scheduler, Noop scheduler and splice (system call) IO architecture. Jens is also the author of the blktrace utility and kernel parts, which provides a way to trace every block IO activity in the Linux kernel. blktrace exists in 2.6.17 and later linux kernels.

[edit] See also

  • CFQ talk, at linux.org.au (with video), 2007

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