Re: Plumbers 2015 -- Performance and Scalability track

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:07:54PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am hoping we can have a scaling track this year. The purpose of this
> > email is to 1) confirm some of the key participants, 2) suggestions for
> > other key participants and 3) more topics so that we can have a big
> > enough pool to screen correctly for what's really worth discussing.
> > 
> > I have setup the wiki page here with some initial tentative topics Paul
> > and I came up with:
> > 
> > http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2015:performance_and_scalability
> > 
> > They are obviously specific to things that interest us. As such, if you
> > would like to attend and/or have specific topics that would like
> > discussed, please update the wiki.
> > 
> > The goals for this track are several: 1) get to know general
> > experimental work going on (kernel and userland). 2) learn about real
> > bottlenecks/issues people are running into, and 3) present wip topics
> > that improve performance and need some face to face discussion. As
> > mentioned in the wiki, this track should only cover performance topics
> > that are not specific to other tracks
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm interested to participate. My only constraint is that the tracing
> summit is on August 20th, and overlaps with one day of LPC. Let's hope
> we can find a way to have this track on a different day.

I have marked this conflict in the list.

> I'm planning to work some more on a efficient per-cpu spinlock & data
> prototype for userspace. This could be an interesting topic for LPC.
> I'm aware of Paul Turner's work in this area. Let's say I'm trying a
> less intrusive approach.

Sounds interesting!

							Thanx, Paul

> Thanks!
> 
> Mathieu
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Davidlohr
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Mathieu Desnoyers
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