Linux Plumbers Conf 2013

One Line Summary

Abstract

Keep time open for ideas and proposals that are new and need feedback or discussion.

Tags

file system, storage, lightning talks, new

Presentation Materials

Speakers

• Dhaval Giani

  Biography

  Dhaval is a graduate student at the University of Toronto. He is working on making RCU easy to debug. He hopes to post those patches very soon.

  In the past he has worked on a lot of varied stuff.

  Sessions

  • * New and Not Ready for Prime Time - Short Lightning Talks
    • Title: New and Not Ready for Prime Time - Short Lightning Talks
    • Microconference: File and Storage Systems II
    • Time: 6:25am
    • One Line Summary:

      Reserved time to discuss new ideas in an open conversation.

    • slides
    • Speakers: Ric Wheeler, Dhaval Giani
  • * Detecting RCU Usage Bugs
    • Title: Detecting RCU Usage Bugs
    • Microconference: BoFs
    • Room: Celestin G
    • Time: 4:50pm
    • One Line Summary:

      Runtime detection of RCU usage bugs such as pointer leaks

    • slides
    • Speakers: Dhaval Giani, Paul McKenney, Frederic Weisbecker

• Ric Wheeler

  Red Hat
  • Website: http://www.redhat.com/

  Biography

  Ric works at Red Hat as the manager and architect of the file system team. He has extensive experience in storage and file systems after spending ten years at EMC in its Symmetrix and Centera groups, four years at The Open Group’s Research Institute and four years at Thinking Machines working on the CM5 operating system.

  In the distant past, Ric worked on the original MOSIX process migration system at Hebrew University’s distributed systems laboratory. For the past ten years, he has been active in the Linux file system and IO world where he helped organize workshops, inform open source developers about high end storage and helped advance the robustness of the Linux IO & file system stack.

  Sessions

  • * SCSI midlayer scalability (Christoph Hellwig)
    • Title: SCSI midlayer scalability (Christoph Hellwig)
    • Microconference: File and Storage Systems II
    • One Line Summary:

      SCSI midlayer scalability work done by Christoph Hellwig

    • Speakers: Ric Wheeler
  • * Shingled Drive Impace on File and Storage Stack
    • Title: Shingled Drive Impace on File and Storage Stack
    • Microconference: File and Storage Systems II
    • Time: 4:45am
    • One Line Summary:

      Shingled drives need changes to file and storage to get the best efficiency.

    • Speakers: Ric Wheeler
  • * New and Not Ready for Prime Time - Short Lightning Talks
    • Title: New and Not Ready for Prime Time - Short Lightning Talks
    • Microconference: File and Storage Systems II
    • Time: 6:25am
    • One Line Summary:

      Reserved time to discuss new ideas in an open conversation.

    • slides
    • Speakers: Ric Wheeler, Dhaval Giani