CXL Emulation in QEMU - Progress, Status, and Future Directions
Explore CXL emulation in QEMU: progress, current status, and future developments. Discuss hot topics like multithread devices, dynamic capacity, and fabric management. Gather feedback on prioritizing features for upcoming year.
Hypervisor-Enforced Kernel Integrity for KVM
Enhancing Linux kernel security through KVM-based protection mechanisms, offering improved defense against vulnerabilities and discussing new features for mainline integration.
A move_pages() Equivalent for Physical Memory
Proposal for a syscall to migrate physical memory contents between NUMA nodes, exploring integration with mm/migrate.c and potential applications in tiering frameworks.
Linux Kernel Autotuning for Optimal Performance
Automated solution for optimizing Linux kernel parameters using machine learning, focusing on memory management. Explores design, architecture, and results, proposing future in-kernel ML framework.
Plumbing Challenges in Dynamic Capacity Device - Linux Plumbers Conference
Explore challenges in implementing CXL 3.0 Dynamic Capacity Device, including memory interleaving, sharing, and asynchronous release. Discuss current architecture and potential improvements for memory pooling in Linux systems.
Safe Sharing of the Network with eBPF
Explore eBPF-based transport tunings for improved network performance and reliability, covering intra-datacenter and inter-region solutions, custom TCP congestion control, and deployment challenges.
RTLA Requests and TODOs for Kernel Tracing Infrastructure - Linux Plumbers Conference
Exploring RTLA tool improvements for Linux tracing, including kernel-side histograms, dual tracer support, and enhanced library capabilities for better performance and functionality.
Improving UAPI Compatibility Review with Automated Tooling
Explore automated tools for maintaining Linux userspace API compatibility, focusing on libabigail for analyzing UAPI changes and discussing strategies for sysfs and module parameters.
Multi-KVM: Enabling Concurrent KVM Module Management
Proposal for Multi-KVM: enabling concurrent KVM modules on a Linux host for seamless upgrades, rollbacks, and A/B testing without disrupting running VMs. Refactoring KVM code for improved modularity.
Kbuild Support for KLP Relocation Generation
Exploring Kbuild support for klprelocation generation in Linux kernel live patching, discussing challenges, proposed solutions, and community feedback for improving livepatch symbol resolution.
Evolution of Direct Server Return Implementation for Containerized Applications
Exploring the evolution of Direct Server Return (DSR) for containerized apps, addressing challenges in multi-tenancy and network namespaces, and discussing solutions for efficient L4 load balancing.
Breaking Barriers - Arduino Core API Advancements in Zephyr, Linux and IoT Systems
Explore Arduino Core API integration with Zephyr RTOS for simplified IoT development. Learn key features, advantages, and future possibilities in streamlining embedded systems programming.
IOMMU Overhead Optimizations and Observability
Proposals for improving IOMMU memory management: observability, charging, debugging, and limiting growth. Includes adding metrics to /proc/meminfo and implementing page table walking for live systems and kdumps.
Linux-WPAN Updates and Future Developments
Explore recent features, challenges, and future developments in Linux-wpan, including team maintainership, pan coordinator services, and link-layer security.
Reporting and Tracking Regressions Across the Linux Ecosystem
Exploring strategies for efficient regression reporting and tracking in Linux kernel development, focusing on collaboration and standardization across the ecosystem.
BPF-Based Packet Filtering Framework: bpfilter - Current Capabilities and Development
Explore bpfilter's evolution into a userspace daemon for dynamic packet-filtering BPF programs. Learn about its capabilities, performance, and ongoing development efforts.
Extending AF_XDP with Hardware Metadata
Explore AF_XDP's recent advancements in NIC offloads, its impact on low-level networking, and future developments for enhanced userspace access to networking queues.
VSOCK: From Convenience to Performant VirtIO Communication
VSOCK's evolution from convenience to high-performance protocol for VM-host communication. Explores datagram support, performance advantages over UDP, and sockmap integration for enhanced eBPF capabilities.
Run ILP32 on RV64 ISA - RV64ILP32
Exploring RV64ILP32: advantages, performance comparisons, and implementation across platforms. Demonstrates potential for improved RISC-V hardware performance and cost-effectiveness.
RISC-V IRQ Bypass Implementation for KVM
Explore RISC-V KVM's irqbypass implementation, focusing on AIA and IOMMU specifications, MRIF support, and uAPI proposals for notice MSI delivery. Discuss performance implications and accounting improvements.
The Path to Achieve a Bug-Free Build on the Mainline
Exploring strategies to achieve bug-free builds in Linux kernel development, focusing on build issues, community testing efforts, and new practices to improve mainline quality.