packet receiving in windows kernel

Under multicore system, an ethernet nic may distribute its interrupt to multiple cores. In this situations, how can kernel guarantee that the packets are delivered to the tcp/ip stack in order? Especially, consider packet processing in the kernel are splitted into ISR and DPC (bottom half in linux kernel) phases. Here is the article (Non-RSS Receive Processing) from msdn that clearly describes the packet receiving process and you can see how in-order delivery is guaranteed.

core dump in windows

One of my favorite feature I miss in linux is the core dump. When a program crashes, the os takes a snapshot of its memory image of the crashed program and put into a file usually named 'core'. The core file is extremely usefully for debugging purpose, since it contains the state when  the program crashes, such as the stack trace.

After switching to windows, I was always wanting to find same feature. Until recently, I ran across an article in msdn, "Collecting User-Mode Dumps". On windows vista and after, you can create such dump file by modifying system registers.

Bingo!