Re: Plumbers: PM constraints micro-conf RFP

[mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:36:10AM -0700, mark gross wrote:
> This is a Request For Participation in a micro-conference at this years
> Linux plumbers event.  For this micro conference to happen we need to
> reach a certain critical mass WRT participants as measured by submitted
> talks associated to Power Management Constraints.
> 
> The To: list is populated with folks that I've had interactions with
> over extending pm-qos or constraint based PM over the past year.
> 
> If you are working on problems related to constraining the power /
> performance of devices I am inviting your participation and request you
> submit a proposal for presenting your problem space (preferred) and or
> solution to a group of developers looking for a good solution to push
> upstream.  The talks will be about 20 min long as I want to get into
> some design and implementation discussions after the requirements
> definition is mostly finished.
> 
> I am interested in gathering user mode interface needs as well as kernel
> mode.
> 
> From a high level pm-constraints is a generalization of pm-qos to include
> limiting performance as well as its current limiting of device
> throttling.
> 
> As performance limiting is typically used for any of the following:
> 1) staying within thermal operational envelopes
> 2) avoiding peak current
> 3) extending battery life in active use cases
> 
> I invite anyone working in any of these areas or pm-qos applications to
> participate in this micro-conference.
> 
> I will organize the micro-conference into 2 parts:
> 1) problem statements with specific participant examples where
> constraining the performance or throttling is needed.
> 
> 2) high level design brain storming.
> 
> If the micro-conference happens (i.e. critical mass is reached) any
> interested linux-plumbers attendees is very welcome to participate.
> 
> Please send me an off list email if you want me to add you to my mutt
> alias of interested parties I'll use to cc people on emails.  Note: must
> of the correspondence will cc linux-pm too.
> 
> Please submit a proposal if you are interested in participating in this
> with me.  I know a number of people are working in this space for the
> past few years now.  I think its a good time to compare notes and at
> least consolidate requirements and use cases.  Perhaps we'll even come up
> with a good design to implement in the process.

I forgot to make clear a few things specific to the Plumbers conference.
1) they need proposals by mid may
2) if you want financial assistance to be part of this micro-conf you
need to ask the conference committee and I think I need to recommend you
as an important participant.  --- Paul, can you clarify this?

If we don't get a critical mass as determined by the conference
committee we can try again / do more stuff over email.  BTW we should be
doing more of anyway.

--mark


> thanks,
> --mark
>