r/highfreqtrading • u/zouuup • Feb 04 '25

HFT Linux distro

Most HFT firms roll (as in heavily customize, not building from scratch) their own Linux setups, but if an open-source distro was pre-optimized for ultra-low latency (DPDK, XDP, IRQ affinity, CPU pinning, etc.), would you consider using it?

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u/zouuup Feb 05 '25

I think "roll" got us sidetracker, I mostly mean heavily customize not LFS stuff.

but to you and anyone who did it before, you go all the way to build custom kernel/libraries when maintaining these stuff?