Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 Redux

Posted By: Charles | Oct 22nd @ 9:30 AM | 55,280 Views | 24 Comments
Windows 7 is here, available to all for purchase and ships today with new PCs! To celebrate this momentous occasion for Windows and Microsoft, Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich joins me in a discussion that extends the great conversation we had last year on Windows 7 internals. In his previous C9 interview, Mark told us about many of the new additions to the Windows kernel which enable Windows 7 (and Windows Server R2) to scale to large numbers of processors. Well, removing the kernel dispatcher lock is not all that the great Arun Kishan did. He also developed a new scheduling mechanism known as Distributed Fair Share Scheduling (DFSS). Mark describes what this is and how it works.

We also discuss NUMA, non-uniform memory access, (and Mark explains NUMA to us while showing a demo or two on a 256 processor machine!)

Moving on to Windows memory management, the domain of the great engineer Landy Wang, Mark discusses the new additions to the Windows Memory Manager and explains why they matter to those of us who spend all of our time and in user mode.

Learn about all of this and much more as Mark digs into the insides of Windows 7, way deep down in the system (the culmative effects of which help to make Windows 7 Microsoft's most reliable, scalable and efficient general purpose operating system to date). As usual, Mark explains very complex mechanisms and concepts in a readily understandable way. This is a very conversational piece and we cover a lot of ground in a relatively short period of time. We also learn exactly why Mark is so passionate about operating systems and what the spark was that set off his passion and curiosity of how things work internally.

Mark will be presenting at PDC09 in the Technical Leaders track and the free Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp. His talks will be very deep and will explore all aspects of the new, improved Windows 7 kernel. I highly recommend that you attend both of these talks if you are going to PDC (you're going, right?!).

Check out the Windows area on 9 for more great Windows 7 content, all rolled up into a nice experience!

Enjoy!

Note: Check out all the 9 Guys Mark has. Smiley Also, you should subscribe to his incredible blog.
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#Oct 24th @ 8:45 AM
Brian Hartung
Brian Hartung

Well thank you for taking the feedback in the spirit in which it was intended and not reading too much into it.  Don't want to sound like I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth...it's a fine gift horse after all Smiley

#Oct 24th @ 11:59 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Interviewing Mark is always a pleasure. You will see Mark's PDC session online (like all PDC sessions). That should give you what you want: pure Mark!

C

#Oct 25th @ 1:55 AM
Rodney McKay
Rodney McKay

A Channel 9 video from 2004 - here you see the HP Superdome, it had 1TB of RAM in 2004 allready - imressive !!!

 

(click on the WMV file download, the embedde video does not work)

 

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/TheChannel9Team/Euan-Garden-Tour-of-SQL-Server-team-Part-IV/

 

#Oct 27th @ 1:34 PM
john959
john959

Mark's smile made me come to this video.. very smart guy

and thank you charles for the internview.

peace!

 

 

#Oct 27th @ 5:22 PM
markrules
markrules

Hey Mark, just wondering if there will ever be a newer version of ERD Commander for Vista/Win7? I have used the 2005 version for many years and find the registry access for the installed OS to be amazing for removing rootkits which are very common these days.  Unfortunately ERD is powerless on Vista/Win7 and was wondering if you plan on releasing a self bootable tool that will be able to mount the registry of the installed OS supported by Vista and Win7?

#Nov 4th @ 9:04 AM
Jason Fossen
Jason Fossen

Another great video!  Please keep them coming, especially if you can get Mark to give a tour of the performance lab.  I'd also love to see a more detailed discussion of the future of the Windows integrity control system: Is this a taste of a future full-blown mandatory access control system to compete with SELinux in secure environments?  What kinds of tools and Group Policy support will there be in the future for managing custom sets of integrity labels?  Thanks!        

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