Linux Plumbers Conference 2012

Hello Fellow Plumbers,

The LPC Program Committee is pleased to announce the following list of topics for our microconferences. As you can see we have a wide range of issues to tackle and this year’s Linux Plumbers Conference is shaping up to be a great event. I’d also like to remind everyone that the regular registration cost of $350 ends this Saturday, July 28th. After that it goes up to $450. If you haven’t already registered, do so now to get the lower price!

Audio - Mark Brown and Takashi Iwai

• PulseAudio on Android - Arun Raghavan
• HD-audio jack retasking - David Henningsson / Takashi Iwai
• Automatic QA / Bug tracking - David Henningsson / Takashi Iwai
• Exposing audio path/routing information to the application layer - Mark Brown
• Representing DSP in ASoC - Vinod Koul/ Pierre-louis Bossart / Liam Girdwood
• Time alignment in Linux audio stack - Pierre-Louis Bossart
• ALSA channel-mapping API - Takashi Iwai

Core OS - Kay Sievers and Lennert Pottering

• Petitboot – A kexec based bootloader - Geoff Levand
• Peace, Love, and Unification in /boot - Harald Hoyer
• Systemd in the Initrd - Harald Hoyer
• The Core OS – Lennart Poettering, Kay Sievers
• Systemd for the User Session - Auke Kok
• The 0.5 second software update - Arjan van de Ven
• Atomic upgrades, booting, and package systems - Colin Walters
• From libabc to libkmod: designing core libraries - Lucas De Marchi
• The Core OS Wishlist - Lennart Poettering, Kay Sievers

Constraints – Mark Gross

• PM Constraints for Tegra - Antti P Miettinen
• PM Constraints for OMAP - Valentin, Eduardo
• A New Model for the System and Devices Latency - Jean Pihet
• Power vs. Performance - Sundar Iyer
• PM With a Co-processor - Vaibhav Bedia
• Priority Based PMQoS Parameters - Illyas Mansoor

Containers - Kir Kolyshkin

• ploop container-in-a-file technology – Maxim Patlasov
• CRIU – Kir Kolyshkin
• Memory cgroup naturalization patches status – Johannes Weiner
• Kernel memory limitation – Glauber Costa
• /proc Virtualization – Glauber Costa
• Time Virtualization – Daniel Lezcano
• syslog Virtualization – Serge Hallyn
• State of cgroups – Tejun Heo
• Building Application Sandboxes on top of LXC and KVM with libvirt – Daniel Berrange

File and Storage Systems - Ric Wheeler and Chris Mason

• Byte queue limits revisited - Tomas Hruby
• Linux traffic classification and shaping - John Fastabend
• CoDel and FQ CoDel - Eric Dumazet
• Data Direct I/O - John Ronciak
• open-vswitch - Shyam Iyer
• Congestion manager for TCP - Yuchung Cheng
• TCP Loss Probe - Nandita Dukkipati
• Multipath TCP - Christoph Paasch
• HW ratelimiting - Jesse Brandeburg

Real-Time - Paul McKenney

• Getting RCU further out of the way - Paul McKenney
• Handling the thorns of mainline - Steven Rostedt
• SCHED_DEADLINE: a new deadline based realtime scheduling policy - Peter Zijlstra
• Review of the stable realtime release process - Frank Rowand
• Lessons We Learned: Common mistakes while testing applications with the RT kernel) - Luis Claudio Goncalves
• State of RT/Thomas’s thoughts - Thomas Gleixner

Scaling - Paul McKenney and Mathieu Desnoyers

• ASMP: Improving performance through dedication of OS tasks to specific processors - Christoph Lameter
• Concurrency Kit: Towards accessible non-blocking technology for C - Samy Bahra
• RCU Judy Arrays: cache-efficient, compact, fast and scalable trie - Mathieu Desnoyers
• Real-time response on large systems: predictions vs. reality - Paul E. McKenney

Scheduler - Vincent Guittot and Amit Kucheria

• Application of Deadline scheduler for powersaving strategy - Juri Lelli
• Task placement for asymmetric cores - Morten Rasmussen
• Scheduling and the big.LITTLE Architecture - Paul McKenney
• cpuquiet: Dynamic CPU core management - Peter De Schrijver
• Interaction with timer and workqueue - Vincent Guittot
• Sharing information with the scheduler - Vincent Guittot