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Book Your Hotel for Plumbers by 18 August

As a reminder, we have a block of rooms at the JW Marriott LA Live available to attendees at the discounted conference rate of $259/night (plus applicable taxes). High speed internet is included in the room rate. Our discounted room rate expires on 5:00 pm PST on August 18. We encourage you to book today! […]

Late Registration Begins Soon

The late registration for Linux Plumbers conference begins on 31 July. If you want to take advantage of the standard registration fees, register now on this link. Standard registration is $550, late registration will be $650.

Checkpoint-Restart Microconference Accepted into the Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the successful Checkpoint-Restart Microconference last year, we’re pleased to announce that there will be another at Plumbers in Los Angeles this year. The agenda this year will focus on specific use cases of Checkpoint- Restart, such as High Performance Computing, state saving uses such as job scheduling and hot standby.  In addition […]

VFIO/IOMMU/PCI Microconference Accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the successful PCI Microconference at Plumbers last year we’re pleased to announce a follow on this year with an expanded scope. The agenda this year will focus on overlap and common development between VFIO/IOMMU/PCI subsystems, and in particular how consolidation of the shared virtual memory(SVM) API can drive an even tighter coupling […]

Power Management and Energy-awareness Microconference Accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the successful Power Management and Energy-awareness at Plumbers last year we’re pleased to announce a follow on this year. The agenda this year will focus on a range of topics including CPUfreq core improvements and schedutil governor extensions, how to best use scheduler signals to balance energy consumption and performance and user […]

Containers Microconference accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the Containers Microconference last year, we’re pleased to announce there will be a follow on at Plumbers in Los Angeles this year. The agenda for this year will focus on unsolved issues and other problem areas in the Linux Kernel Container interfaces with the goal of allowing all container runtimes and orchestration […]

Early Bird Rate Registration Ending Soon

A reminder that our Early Bird registration rate is ending soon. The last day at the Early Bird rate of 400$ is Sunday June 18th. We are also almost sold out of Early Bird slots (15% left of our quota). Get yours soon! Starting June 19th registration will be at the regular rate of 550$. […]

RDMA Microconference Accepted into the Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the successful RDMA Microconference last year, which resulted in a lot of fruitful discussions we’re pleased to announce there will be a follow on at Plumbers in Los Angeles this year. In addition to looking at the usual kernel core gaps and ABI issues, Documentation and testing, we’ll also be looking at […]

Linux Kernel Memory Model Workshop Accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference

A good understanding of the Linux kernel memory model is essential for a great many kernel-hacking and code-review tasks.  Unfortunately, the current documentation (memory-barriers.txt) has been said to frighten small children, so this workshop’s goal is to demystify this memory model, including hands-on demos of the tools, help installing/running the tools, and help constructing appropriate […]

Today is the very last day for Plumbers refereed track submissions

The submission site https://linuxplumbersconf.org/2017/ocw/events/LPC2017TALKS/proposals Will close at midnight pacific tonight