In this talk, Davidlohr will present different alternatives to kernel performance monitoring through automation and will discuss how it can serve to actively detect regressions and new issues throughout the kernel, including how developers can easily test their changes on a wide range of workloads and gather important runtime metrics.

I will describe the new specification process used to produce ACPI 6, the implementation of the ACPI support in the Linux kernel and explain how the new specification revision is going to be addressed by it, plus a few most important changes with respect to the previous revisions of ACPI. (slides)

The presentation will cover an introduction to kernelci.org: a community based, architecture agnostic build and boot automation tool for the Linux Kernel.

This talk will explain what still needs to be done to get the RT patch fully into mainline, and what is holding it up from getting in.