Re: Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP

[Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>]

On 05/11/2012 06:38 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 11 May 2012 18:26, Steven Rostedt<rostedt@goodmis.org>  wrote:
>> Not really specific to HW, but Juri Lelli has been working on a deadline
>> scheduler. Perhaps his work may be of interest.
>
> Yes for sure, if Juri is agree to present his work
>

Sure! It will be really interesting for me.
I'm setting up the proposal. I'll send it today.

Thanks and Regards,

- Juri
  
> Vincent
>>
>> -- Steve
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 18:16 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>> This is a request-for-participation in a micro conference during the
>>> next Linux Plumber Conference (29-31st Aug).
>>> It'll require critical mass measured in talk submissions in the
>>> general area of scheduler and task management.
>>>
>>> If you're working on improving the the scheduler policy used to place
>>> a task on a CPU to suit your HW, we are inviting your participation
>>> and request you to submit a proposal to present your problem (e.g.
>>> power-efficiency) or a solution to solve said problem that should be
>>> considered by upstream developers.
>>>
>>> We've interacted with the people in To: list before in our quest to
>>> better understand how the scheduler works and we're hoping you all
>>> will consider participating in the micro-conf to help guide what kinds
>>> of ideas are likely to make it upstream.
>>>
>>> If you have ongoing work or ideas in the the following areas we're
>>> especially interested in hearing from you:
>>>   1. Consolidation of statistics with other frameworks (cpuidle,
>>> cpufreq, scheduler all seem to track their own statistics related to
>>> load, idleness, etc. Can this be converted to a library that is
>>> useable by all?)
>>>   2. Replacement for task consolidation on fewer CPUs aka. replacement
>>> for sched_mc
>>>   3. Improvement in the placement of activity beside tasks: timer,
>>> workqueue, IO, interruption
>>>   4. Instrumentation to calculate the compute capacity available on
>>> active cores and its utilization by a given workload
>>>
>>> We are thinking of organising the micro-conf as a Q&  A session where
>>> a participant would state a problem and then there would be
>>> brainstorming on if this is indeed a problem and is so, how to achieve
>>> a solution. In other words, 20-30 minute slots of each Q&  A
>>>
>>> 1. Problem statements with specific examples on why changing the
>>> default scheduler policy is desired
>>> 2. For each problem, if it is deemed not possible to accomplish easily
>>> today, brainstorming on what an acceptable solution would look like
>>> (frameworks to build upon, interfaces to use, related work in the
>>> area, key people to involve, etc.)
>>>
>>> Please email us if you will be attending the conference and interested
>>> in talking about this problem space.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Amit&  Vincent
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