We have extended the early registration deadline for LPC 2014 to August 15th so that we can announce the refereed papers selection before the new deadline. Until August 15th the registration price remains 350USD. Effective August 16th 2014, the registration price will increase to 475USD. All other registration dates and prices have not changed. The student registration rate of 150USD remains in effect throughout the registration period. For more details pleas see our Attend page.
If you have any questions please contact the planning committee at contact@lists.linuxplumbersconf.org.
We are very pleased to announce the final four Microconferences accepted to this year’s edition of LPC. They are: Development Tools, IOMMU and VFIO, Live Kernel Patching and Tracing. Congratulations!
We will continue to post detailed descriptions of each accepted session in the near future.
We also would like to take the opportunity to announce that the microconferences schedule for this year is full and that we are not able to accept any new proposals. Thanks to all of you who have helped us putting together a great conference.
Next, we will be opening the submission of proposals for topics to be discussed within each microconference, and for BOFs. Please stay tuned for further announcements and instructions about this.
As always, if you have any questions please contact the planning committee at contact@lists.linuxplumbersconf.org.
Let’s dive into another one of the accepted Microconferences for Linux Plumbers Conference 2014: Network Management.
The pervasive use of networking by household appliances, sensor networks, manufacturing equipment, and even automobiles is posing quite a few challenges to network management. (Do you know which DNS server your car is using?) That said, one of the nice things about network management tools is that there are so many of them to choose from, including NetworkManager, ConnMan, systemd, and wicked. This situation brings up questions about improved code sharing among these projects, interoperability for the inevitable situation where more than one is in use, and handoff of network configuration information.
This microconference will feature important discussions on other topics as well, including security issues, tethering, the interactions between NFS root filesystems and DHCP leases, and supporting system services that need some sort of connectivity at system startup (see Bugzilla 728965), though hopefully it will never be necessary to push your car to a WiFi hotspot in order to start it. After all, isn’t that what tethering and smartphones are for?
More details on this Microconference can be found in the LPC 2014 Wiki.
We look forward to seeing you in Düsseldorf!
(Paul McKenney contributed to this post)
The LPC 2014 Planning Committee is pleased to announce the acceptance of 3 more Microconferences to this year conference! They are: Android/Mobile, LLVM and Energy-aware Scheduling and CPU Power Management. Congratulations! Look for more detailed posts on each of them.
We also want to remind everyone that the LPC 2014 Planning committee is still reviewing the remaining proposals. A final round of reviews and approvals will be done very soon.
This year’s Microconferences are looking very promising, with a lot of exciting topics. Thank you all that have submitted ideas and proposals!
Let’s resume our series of in-depth looks at the LPC 2014 Microconference lineup by discussing the Real Time microconference.
Ten years ago, many people asserted that it was not possible to achieve real-time latencies on a general-purpose OS such as Linux. This microconference will see some of OSADL’s long-term testing data that show just what Linux -rt is capable of. However, not everyone is content to run on bare metal, so there will be some discussions of the excellent progress that has been made getting real-time response from guest OSes. If you need more inspiration to improve your kernel regression tests, come listen to the progress towards using Linux for safety-critical applications.
This microconference will feature important discussions on other topics as well, including the new NO_HZ_FULL facility, scalability issues with reader-writer locks and mmap_sem, issues with various -rt trees, a readout from the invitation-only Real Time Mini-Summit, and Thomas’s views on the future of the -rt project. For more details, please see the LPC 2014 Wiki.
We hope to see you there!
(thanks to Paul McKenney for helping with this post)
We would like to remind everyone that, if you still haven’t sent in your submission for refereed track presentations, you have until tomorrow, July 11 2014, 11:59PM CET. To submit your proposal please follow the instructions on our participate page. As usual if you have questions feel free to contact us.
We look forward to seeing you in Düsseldorf!
Welcome to today’s segment about our accepted LPC 2014 Microconferences.
This LPC 2014 microconference drives yet another nail in the coffin for the outdated idea that file and storage systems are a mature technology. Persistent memory technologies offer yet another profound increase in throughput and decrease in latency, which is forcing additional change in software layers that were architected long ago for the venerable disk drive’s seek and rotational latencies. However, the disk drives are changing as well, with the addition of shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drives (see this ZDNet article). SMR drives take advantage of the fact that read heads can be made quite a bit smaller than write heads by overlapping adjacent tracks. This permits random small-block reads, but it also means that updating any small block requires rewriting the entire set of overlapping tracks. Early devices are expected to hide this requirement in much the same way that memory sticks hide their erase blocks, but future devices are expected to allow more highly optimized access, which in turn will require changes to the file and storage system layers in the Linux kernel.
This microconference will feature important discussions on other topics as well, including new device-mapper features, additional support for userspace filesystems, huge filesystem block sizes, storage management, and more. Please see our LPC 2014 wiki for additional details.
Please join us at this discussion of exciting new technologies!
(thanks to Paul McKenney for the above text)
Welcome to the first write up in our new series of approved LPC 2014 Microconferences. Enjoy!
Although there are some of us old enough to remember a time when an automobile was primarily a mechanical artifact, these days it more closely resembles a datacenter on wheels. In fact, it has gotten to the point that many cars’ wires, taken together, are their third heaviest component, outweighed only by the chassis and the engine (http://theinstitute.ieee.org/benefits/standards/fewer-wires-lighter-cars). And so it is that we now have an Automotive microconference at the Linux Plumbers Conference.
This microconference will cover important topics including fast boot, using virtualization to allow embedded vehicle controllers and Linux-based applications to run on the same multicore CPU, diagnostics (including GENIVI diagnostic log and trace), use of networking (for example, to reduce wiring weight), interfacing Linux and automotive diagnostics, and user interaction (“Sorry, I cannot click “OK” now because I am driving, but show me the map!!!”). In addition, this microconference will feature a hackathon for developing applications to run on the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) platforms.
Please see more about this microconference on the LPC 2014 wiki.
We hope to see you there!
(Paul McKenney contributed to the text above)
We are pleased to announce that four new Microconferences were added to the Linux Plumbers Conference 2014 line up! They are: Automotive, File and Storage Systems, Network Management and Real Time. For more details please see the Topics Page on the LPC 2014 wiki. Congratulations!
Look for more postings with detailed descriptions of each Microconference.
We are still reviewing the current list of proposed Microconferences, and as usual, we would also like to remind you that there is still time to submit new topics. However the schedule is starting to fill up, and we might be able to accommodate only a few more Microconferences beyond the already proposed and accepted ones.
Here is another in the series of LPC 2014 Microconferences in-depth write ups. Enjoy!
Wireless networking has long since become ubiquitous, and the Linux kernel is a major player for this technology, especially given the ability of many smartphones to connect to wireless networks (see http://wireless.kernel.org). This microconference will address a number of important topics, including WifiDisplay/Miracast, mac80211, bluetooth, near-field communications (NFC), 802.11 standards activity, and the ever-present userspace and management issues. If the past eight Linux wireless-networking gatherings are any guide, we should also expect spirited discussions of new standards, upcoming technologies, interfacing issues, and regulatory concerns. Note that this Microconference will happen in place of the Wireless Minisummit, that was held in the past few years.
For more information about the contents of the Wireless Microconference, please see our LPC 2014 wiki .
Please join us for an interesting discussion!
(Thanks to Paul McKenney for help with the text)
