Current MM topics for LSF10/MM Summit 8-9 August in Boston

[Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>]

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.

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@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> 
> and optionally cc the Linux list which would be most interested in it:
> 
> SCSI: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> FS: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org (plus relevant fs specific list)
> MM: linux-mm@kvack.org
> 
> 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@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> 
> 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@lists.linuxfoundation.org