On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 22:05 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Apologies for the delay, there haven't been a lot of explicit proposals > for topics, but I think there is a lot to talk about, so I would like to > hear more ideas but I have suggested a few of my own. I'd like to attend if possible. Larry Woodman > > Rik van Riel Memory management under virtualization (with KVM) > Andrea Arcangeli Transparent hugepages > KOSAKI Motohiro get_user_pages vs COW problem > Boaz Harrosh Stable page contents under writeback > Michael Rubin, Sorin Faibish, Jan Kara Writeback issues (several subtopics) > > I propose some other possible topics for agenda > - Zone aware slab reclaim (eg. dentry, inode) > - mmap_sem scalability, again > - Page allocator scalability > - OOM killer work > - Direct reclaim, direct writeback problems > > Thanks, > Nick > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:50:59PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > Given that we're under two months out, I thought it would be time to > > post a summary of the topics we've collected so far (Nick will post the > > MM summit ones later). Look this over, and if there's anything missing, > > propose it ... or if you have cross Storage/FS/MM topics, post them too. > > > > Oh, and since we're not the most organised bunch, if you posted a topic > > and don't see it in the list, please resend ... we probably lost it in > > an email shuffle. > > > > Current Filesystem Topics: > > > > Alex Elder Upstream maintainer for XFS, general discussion on FS/IO > > Aneesh Kumar Rich-acl patches which work better with NFSv4 acl and CIFS acl > > Anshul Madan reflink for NFS > > Chuck Lever NFS/IPV6 and NFS O_DIRECT, Wu's read-ahead work, vitro perf tools > > Eric Sandeen Advances in testing, TRIM/DISCARD/Alignment, writeback sanity > > James Lentini reflink for NFS > > Jan Kara Discuss/drive sanity review of writeback and general ext*/jbd > > Michael Rubin Writeback scaling > > Sage Weil Statlite, generic interface for describing file striping for distributed FS, VFS scalability > > Al Viro Sorting out d_revalidate and other dcache issues > > Coly Li directory/large file scalability > > Sorin Faibish Cache writeback discussion > > > > Current Storage Topics: > > > > Eric Seppanen Next generation SSDs, performance implications on Linux I/O > > Boaz Harrosh PNFS performance considerations, bio_list based/async raidN for generic use; stable pages for I/O > > FUJITA Tomonori SCSI target mode, iSCSI, block layer SG (bsg), sg, IOMMU, DMA issues > > Hannes Reinecke libfc/multipath/error handing > > James Smart FCOE proposal for rework of the FC sysfs tree, work with Hannes on other transport/SCSI subsystem topics > > Jeff Moyer IO scheduler > > Joel Becker SAN management plugin > > Martin Petersen Updates on DIF/DIX, TRIM/DISCARD/UNMAP, generic support for WRITE_SAME > > > > Plus some MM summit ones which Nick will summarise. > > > > For the benefit of those who've forgotten here's the original Call for > > topics and attendees: > > > > This year we'll hold the Linux Storage and Filesystems summit jointly > > with the VM summit on the two days before LinuxCon in Boston (that's > > Sunday and Monday) at the Renaissance Hotel: > > > > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon > > > > We're planning to hold some sessions jointly and split into three tracks > > (Filesystems, Storage and VM) for others, so we're encouraging proposals > > for discussion that cover areas relevant to all three groups as well as > > more specific technical topics. > > > > Suggestions for agenda topics should be sent to > > > > lsf10-pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > and optionally cc the Linux list which would be most interested in it: > > > > SCSI: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > FS: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (plus relevant fs specific list) > > MM: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx > > > > Please tag your subject with [LSF/VM TOPIC] so those of us who're not > > very organised can find them easily in our inboxes. The agenda topics > > and attendees will be selected by the programme committee, but the final > > agenda will be by formed by consensus of the attendees on the day. > > > > We'll try to cap attendance at around 20 per track to facilitate > > discussions although the final numbers will depend on the room sizes > > at the venue. > > > > Requests to attend should be sent to: > > > > lsf10-pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > please summarise what you'll bring to the meeting, and what you'd like > > to discuss. please also tag your email with [ATTEND] so there's less > > chance of it getting lost in the large mail pile. > > > > Presentations are allowed to guide discussion, but are strongly > > discouraged. There will be no recording or audio bridge, however > > written minutes will be published as in previous years: > > > > 2009: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/327601/ > > http://lwn.net/Articles/327740/ > > http://lwn.net/Articles/328347/ > > > > Prior years: > > http://www.usenix.org/events/lsf08/tech/lsf08sums.pdf > > http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2007-06/openpdfs/lsf07sums.pdf > > > > If you have feedback on last year's meeting that we can use to improve > > this year's, please also send that to: > > > > lsf10-pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . 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