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

Christof Schmitt
2010-06-17T16:00:55Z

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.
[...]

What about the topic "Stable pages while IO"?
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg44074.html

Was it lost during the e-mail shuffle or will it be part of the MM topics?

Christof