Unifying Power Policies
Proposal for unifying Linux kernel power policies through a power scheduler and platform-specific power driver, addressing challenges in scheduling, frequency scaling, and idle state selection.
Kexec - Kdump and Secureboot
Explore challenges and solutions for Kexec/kdump compatibility with Secureboot, including recent implementations and discussions on maintaining system security during kernel loading.
Kicking it up a Level - Bringing the Trusted Platform Module into QEMU
Explore virtualization of Trusted Platform Modules in qemu, enhancing security for cloud users through remote attestation and verification of untampered Trusted Computing Bases.
User-Level Threads with Threads
Explore efficient multi-threaded programming using user-level threads, covering new kernel interfaces and primitives for cooperative threading with sub-200ns context-switch times across various languages.
Full Dynticks Status
Explore full dynticks capability in Linux kernel: current status, improvements since 3.10 merge, and future development plans for enhanced power management and performance.
Getting Android Userland to Build with Clang
Explore challenges and solutions in porting Android userland to clang 3.3, including compatibility issues, bug fixes, and code reorganizations. Discuss future improvements for clang-built Android systems.
Fixing the Filesystem Freeze API
Exploring improvements to Linux kernel's filesystem freeze functionality, addressing issues like lack of check API, unmounting frozen filesystems, and compatibility with multi-device filesystems and DM snapshot.
Scalability Issues in Linux Kernel
Explore Linux kernel scalability challenges, including bottlenecks, framework improvements, and tuning strategies for high-performance systems and multi-threaded applications.
How Will We Address Persistent Memory
Explore persistent memory technologies, their characteristics, and implications for file system implementation in Linux, discussing hardware, software stacks, and potential approaches.
Shingled Drive Impact on File and Storage Stack
Explore the impact of shingled drives on storage systems, covering technology evolution, user considerations, and optimization strategies for sequential writes and data management.
Packing, Spreading and Scheduling Latency
Explore task scheduling optimization, power efficiency, and latency reduction in CPU management. Learn about packing policies and activity monitoring for improved system performance.
Let Me Contain That For You
Redesign of Google's container management solution, addressing scalability, resource utilization, priority management, and hierarchical containment for future workload demands.
Android Netfilter Changes
Exploring Android netfilter changes and efforts to merge functionality with upstream Linux, focusing on ConfigFS gadget integration and remaining challenges for Android migration.
ION - dma-buf Allocators - Constraint Solving
Roundtable on ION/dma-buf allocators and constraint solving, discussing centralized vs device-specific allocators, userland device constraint discovery, and potential iommu/dma-api extensions.
Fedora - Systemd on LXC Status
Explore challenges and solutions for integrating systemd with LXC containers, focusing on Fedora implementations and IBM insights.
Android MC
Explore Android's evolving applications, mainlining efforts, and core functionality improvements in Linux systems, including kernel developments and innovative solutions.
Device Tree MC - Part 1
Explore device tree implementation, validation, and optimization for embedded systems, covering bindings, overlays, bootloaders, and FPGA integration in Linux environments.
Performance and Scalability MC
Explore Linux kernel performance optimizations, scalability challenges, and real-world bottlenecks. Discuss topics like mmap_sem locking, page allocation, and workqueue improvements.
Power Management and Energy-awareness
Explore power management frameworks, task scheduling for energy optimization, and platform mechanisms to enhance Linux's power and energy-awareness through cross-framework discussions.
BPF Microconference
Explore advancements in BPF technology for Linux kernel, covering networking, tracing, and security. Learn about verifier scalability, type formats, dynamic tracing, and more in this comprehensive session.
Real Time MC
Explore the journey of PREEMPT_RT in Linux, its impact on kernel development, and future challenges in real-time operating systems.