Linux Plumbers Conf 2010

This is a discussion of how Linux needs to scale better out-of-the-box with large I/O network devices.

Memory Management in a virtualized environment is a hard problem with many creative solutions being developed

What have you learned from Android PM enabling of you device?

How can we fix the API for real-time scheduling with temporal isolation (deadline scheduling / Sporadic Server) ? (slides)

Discussion of audio integration issues in both kernel and userspace, covering both desktop and embedded systems. "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:audio "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-audio

Simplified audio hardware management with emphasis on performance, power consumption and audio use case flexibility.

systemd is a new system and session manager for Linux which is currently being adopted by the Fedora and OpenSUSE distributions as default init system.

Early initialization and alternatives to traditional unix init. "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:early_boot_and_init_systems "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-boot-and-init

Come hear about the somewhat less-lame boot-charting solution.

Which C-State is the most optimal in terms of energy saving for a given idle time?

Challenges that we have with networking in the mobile space.

Issues blocking advanced and general usage of checkpoint/restart in desktop/non-HPC environments.

Making the world a better place by enabling people to switch between Xen, Qemu and KVM as they wish.

We have three disk heartbeats systems; let's not.

Unification of Perf, Ftrace and LTTng ring buffers.

Convert ftrace plugin to the unified trace event interface.

Current community roadmap and discussion about additional features.

Why and how to efficiently dedicate a CPU to a single task through CPU isolation.

What issues are keeping CPUIdle from being closer to suspend in terms of power savings?

Let's talk about how to improve user experiences involving file and storage systems.

Presentation will highlight the ongoing efforts for enabling data center bridging technologies in the Linux kernel to meet the requirements of applications and stacks over Ethernet.

embedded device debugging is made harder by the fact that people use them, and when they crash you arn't there. How to capture useful data persistently for remote postmortem debug is the question

This describes the internals of CTDB and why CTDB is designed the way it is.

Desktop related topics "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:desktop "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-desktop

Microconference for X and other graphics infrastructure

after getting all the pm patches into your system, there is a lot more work to do to get good battery life.

General discussion about device tree support on embedded platforms

mainlining Syslink: discussion of problems/solutions towards an efficient Inter-Processor Communication system for mobile Linux devices that employ extra slave remote processors

Filtered replication for the Pacemaker CIB

Introduction of a initramfs generation tool, which creates a general purpose udev event based initramfs.

A presentation of kprobes/uprobes based dynamic trace event

Why can't we have an HA appliance that you just plug in, turn on and forget about?

An overview of the mesa EGL and GLES 1/2 implementation on Linux

Embedded topics and issues. "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:embedded_topics "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-embedded

Embedded platforms mainlining problems and their possible solutions.

Video4Linux, Fbdev Framework: Does they satisfy/fulfill features supported by Embedded devices

Make Linux running as PV guest under Xen work with PCI pass-through devices.

Discussion of presentation of audio path data to applications

The track will deal with issues around file and storage systems in Linux, from the kernel space up to user space. "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:file_and_storage_systems "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-file-and-storage-systems

Discussion surrounding performance regression testing

What we can do to help application developers add Pacemaker support into their applications

GNOME OS: an open operating system designed for modern life

Discussion of how to handle digital audio sources outside the CPU

Handling Thin provisioning Capacity Threshold Alerts

Discussion of low level issues related to HA and Clustering (including filesystems). "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:ha_clustering "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-high-availability-clustering

Discussion about the needs and possibilities of the I/O runtime PM framework integration with the CPUidle framework.

Discussion about user space interfaces provided by the kernel's I/O runtime PM framework.

Integration of VMware ESX para-virtual and passthru I/O "plumbing", 10GbE IOV, and protocol acceleration.

how to get a cluster running in any cloud?

Leveraging kernel-side knowledge of task scheduling can provide for more efficient adaptive mutexes.

Where are we, where are we going and why do we need KVM on S390x?

An in-depth discussion of the key challenges in optimizing KVM/QEMU storage stack performance, our recent progress, and solicitation of ideas on further work in this area.

An overview of the current state of Linux Containers in (and out of) the mainline.

Expand Xen PV frontend drivers in Linux to work under HVM.

Cleaning out the CIB XML schema

Introducing Matahari and its role in a clustered environment

The Media Controller is a new kernel API designed to give applications full control over media devices through a single interface.

Consider further integration of kernel debugging and tracing.

non-traditional multi-card scenarios are appearing in hardware and we need to better place kernel/X.org to deal with these

Topics and issues for the multimedia stack. "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:media_infrastructure "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-multimedia

Video4Linux, Digital Video Broadcasting, Video Decoding and Remote Control integration

Multimedia devices need to transfer very large amount of data efficiently, a painful operation on ARM-based systems that needs a solution.

Which of my NICs is eth0?

How can we achieve performance isolation of networking-intensive VMs ?

Discuss support for layer-2 switching, network isolation, QoS, and virtual machine migrations of virtualized workloads

Explore and discuss methods to handle PM QoS constraints for each device in addition to system wide constraints.

Currently, platform-specific code has a need to customize common PM methods, typically on the platform_bus. This track is to discuss the various approaches to solving this problem.

Discuss the experience around porting virtio para-virtualization to other architectures

Discussions about all topics related to power management "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:power_management "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-power-management

Implementing Xen device model support in Qemu

Real Time Linux discussions "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:real-time_response_for_full_foss_linux_stack "EtherPad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-real-time

PREEMPT_RT users provide insight in use cases and experience

This presentation shows the unique challenges with remote booting a system over iSCSI and FCoE storage protocols on Linux, lessons learned from past implementations, and future directions.

An overview of proposed updates to the XML schema we use to define OCF resource agent metadata

This presentation will show the benefits in terms of power, audio policy and routing of handling compressed data in PulseAudio

Discussion about how to run mainstream Linux distributions on ARM-based systems

This talk will describe some techniques for scaling front end servers. In particular, we will describe the the use of SO_REUSEPORT in scaling servers for high connection rates with a single listening port.

SeaBIOS - the default BIOS for QEMU & KVM - where it came from and where it's going.

Simplify network configuration for VMs by harmonizing multiple Bridging, QOS, DCB and CNA implementations

A quick overview where the Linux audio infrastructure stands this year.

This talk will analyze the performance of the KVM SVM emulation today and will discuss some ideas to improve the performance and closing the performance gap between virtualization levels.

systemd is a not only an init systemd, but also a session manager, making the same features that are available for managing the system available to manage the user sessions

An exploration of tools and test suites for measuring the performance of the real-time kernel. Also, a glimpse into the future, what do we need to do better?

Resurrecting the OCF Standards Body for Resource Agents

Discuss integrating CTDB with Pacemaker clusters; we need one less messaging layer, and one less resource manager.

Ticket spinlocks have surprisingly bad behaviour in a VM

Linux Tracing topics and issues. "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:tracing "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-tracing

Linux Tracing topics and issues. "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:tracing "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-tracing

It would be nice to merge Linux and hypervisor tracing abilities.

The presentation will show some internals and benefits of Transparent Hugepage Support

Presentation and discussion around the tools available and used to debug audio problems

Discussion around migrating specific Android tools and technology into other embedded Linux distros, to reduce fragmentation in the industry.

Let's talk about generic API for snapshots.

Discussion of device naming, Network Manger, Conman etc. "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:user-visible_networking_issues "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-user-visible-network-issues

Status and development of the new driver framework for multimedia devices.

VirtFS is a paravirtual file system pass-through in the KVM/QEMU environment. We would like to discuss and take community view/help on resolving some of the current issues and more advanced features.

Virtualization topics and issues "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:virtualization "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-virtualization

Virtualization topics and issues "Wiki":http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010:virtualization "Etherpad":http://etherpad.osuosl.org/lpc2010-virtualization

Discussing the benefits of virtualizing NUMA architecture in KVM or Xen guests

A proposal for making cluster management more easily accessible for 3rd party management software developers.

Tell the Pacemaker developers what sucks about building clusters with Pacemaker

Help in the process of providing Xen privileged support in Linux kernel.