Book Your Hotel for Plumbers by 18 August

As a reminder, we have a block of rooms at the JW Marriott LA Live
available to attendees at the discounted conference rate of $259/night
(plus applicable taxes). High speed internet is included in the room rate.

Our discounted room rate expires on 5:00 pm PST on August 18. We encourage
you to book today!

Visit our Attend page for additional details.

Late Registration Begins Soon

The late registration for Linux Plumbers conference begins on 31 July. If you want to take advantage of the standard registration fees, register now on this link.

Standard registration is $550, late registration will be $650.

Checkpoint-Restart Microconference Accepted into the Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the successful Checkpoint-Restart Microconference
last year, we’re pleased to announce that there will be another at
Plumbers in Los Angeles this year.

The agenda this year will focus on specific use cases of Checkpoint-
Restart, such as High Performance Computing, state saving uses such as
job scheduling and hot standby.  In addition we’ll be looking at
enhancements such as performance and using userfaultfd for dirty memory
tracking in iterative migration and what it would take to have
unprivileged checkpoint-restart.  Finally, we’ll have discussions on
checkpoint-restart aware applications and what sort of testing needs to
be applied to the upstream kernel to prevent any checkpoint-restore API
breakage as it evolves.

For more details on this, please see this microconference’s wiki page.

We hope to see you there!

VFIO/IOMMU/PCI Microconference Accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the successful PCI Microconference at Plumbers last year we’re pleased to announce a follow on this year with an expanded scope.

The agenda this year will focus on overlap and common development between VFIO/IOMMU/PCI subsystems, and in particular how consolidation of the shared virtual memory(SVM) API can drive an even tighter coupling between them.

This year we will also focus on user visible aspects such as using SVM to share page tables with devices and reporting I/O page faults to userspace in addition to discussing PCI and IOMMU interfaces and potential improvements.

For more details on this, please see this microconference’s wiki page.

We hope to see you there!

Power Management and Energy-awareness Microconference Accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the successful Power Management and Energy-awareness at Plumbers last year we’re pleased to announce a follow on this year.

The agenda this year will focus on a range of topics including CPUfreq core improvements and schedutil governor extensions, how to best use scheduler signals to balance energy consumption and performance and user space interfaces to control capacity and utilization estimates.  We’ll also discuss selective throttling in thermally constrained systems, runtime PM for ACPI, CPU cluster idling and the possibility to implement resume from hibernation in a bootloader.

For more details on this, please see this microconference’s wiki page.

We hope to see you there!

Containers Microconference accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the Containers Microconference last year, we’re pleased to announce there will be a follow on at Plumbers in Los Angeles this year.

The agenda for this year will focus on unsolved issues and other problem areas in the Linux Kernel Container interfaces with the goal of allowing all container runtimes and orchestration systems to provide enhanced services.  Of particular interest is the unprivileged use of container APIs in which we can use both to enable self containerising applications as well as to deprivilege (make more secure) container orchestration systems.  In addition we will be discussing the potential addition of new namespaces: (LSM for per-container security modules; IMA for per-container integrity and appraisal, file capabilities to allow setcap binaries to run within unprivileged containers)

For more details on this, please see this microconference’s wiki page.

We hope to see you there!

Early Bird Rate Registration Ending Soon

A reminder that our Early Bird registration rate is ending soon. The last day at the Early Bird rate of 400$ is Sunday June 18th. We are also almost sold out of Early Bird slots (15% left of our quota). Get yours soon!
Starting June 19th registration will be at the regular rate of 550$.
Please see the Attend page for info.

RDMA Microconference Accepted into the Linux Plumbers Conference

Following on from the successful RDMA Microconference last year, which resulted in a lot of fruitful discussions we’re pleased to announce there will be a follow on at Plumbers in Los Angeles this year.

In addition to looking at the usual kernel core gaps and ABI issues, Documentation and testing, we’ll also be looking at new fabrics (including NVME), challenges to implement virtual RDMA device and integration possibilities with netdev.

For more details on this, please see this microconference’s wiki page.

Linux Kernel Memory Model Workshop Accepted into Linux Plumbers Conference

A good understanding of the Linux kernel memory model is essential for a great many kernel-hacking and code-review tasks.  Unfortunately, the current documentation (memory-barriers.txt) has been said to frighten small children, so this workshop’s goal is to demystify this memory model, including hands-on demos of the tools, help installing/running the tools, and help constructing appropriate litmus tests.  These tools should go a long way toward the ultimate goal of automating the process of using memory models to frighten small children.

For more information, please see this microconference’s wiki page.  For those who like getting a head start, this page also includes information on downloading and installing the tools, the memory model, and thousands of pre-existing litmus tests.  (Collect the whole set!!!) We also welcome experience reports from early adopters of these tools.

We hope to see you there!

Today is the very last day for Plumbers refereed track submissions

The submission site

https://linuxplumbersconf.org/2017/ocw/events/LPC2017TALKS/proposals

Will close at midnight pacific tonight