Please use the following link on Thursday June 25 2020 at 8am PDT/ 11am EDT/ 3pm GMT to join the LPC Town Hall:
https://linuxplumbers.lwn.net/b/lin-rs8-zoh
Note that no account is necessary!
Please refer to the previous post about the Town Hall to get more info.
See you there!
Registration is now open for the 2020 edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC). It will be held August 24 – 28, virtually. Go to the attend page for more information.
Note that the CFPs for microconferences, refereed track talks, and BoFs are still open, please see this page for more information.
As always, please contact the organizing committee if you have questions.
We are pleased to announce that the Kernel Dependability & Assurance Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference!
Linux is now being used in applications that are going to require a high degree of confidence that the kernel is going to behave as expected. Some of the key areas we’re seeing Linux now start to be used are in medical devices, civil infrastructure, caregiving robots, automotives, etc. This brings up a number of concerns that must be addressed. What sort of uptime can we count on? Should safety analysis be reevaluated after a bug fix has been made? Are all the system requirements being satisfied by Linux? What tooling is there to solve these questions?
This microconference is the place that the kernels community can come together and discuss these major issues. Topics to be discussed include:
Come and join us in making the most popular operating system the most dependable as well. We hope to see you there!
The Linux Plumbers Committee is pleased to announce a Town Hall meeting on June 25 at 8am PDT/ 11am EDT/ 3pm GMT. This meeting serves two purposes. The first purpose is to test our remote conference set up. This is the first time we are holding Linux Plumbers virtually and while we can run simulated tests, it’s much more effective to test our setup with actual participants with differing hardware set ups around the world. The second purpose is to present on our planning and give everyone a little bit of an idea of what to expect when we hold Plumbers at the end of August. We plan to have time for questions.
Given this is a test, the number of participants will be capped at 250 people. The purpose of this test is to examine the scale to which the infrastructure can handle the expected demand for a virtual Linux Plumbers Conference. If you can’t make this day or are blocked by the participation cap from joining, we expect to be running more tests in the days to come.
Please note that the Plumbers Code of Conduct will be in effect for this event. We also plan to record this event as we will be recording sessions at the actual conference. We will post the URL for the town hall on the LPC blog prior to the event. We hope to see you there and help make Plumbers the best conference for everyone.
The committee is relentlessly working on recreating online the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) experience that we have all come to appreciate, and take for granted, over the past few years.
We had initially planned to open registration on June 15th. While travel planning is not one, there are still very many aspects of the conference being worked on. We are now aiming to open registration for Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) on June 23rd.
Right now we have shortlisted BigBlueButton as our online conferencing solution. One of our objectives is to run LPC 2020 online on a full open software stack.
We anticipate running our usual set of parallel tracks, including microconferences per day. With our globally distributed participants, identifying the timezone most convenient is still work in progress. There will be a timezone question on our registration form, please make sure to answer it.
To help us test part of the online platform, and offer transparency about where things stand with LPC 2020 preparation, the committee is currently planning the first ever “LPC Town Hall Meeting”. We hope to host it very soon. More information will be made available very soon.
As previously announced, we are reducing the conference registration fee to US$50. Registration availability has been an issue in past years. We have no way to anticipate what the uptake will be for LPC 2020 registration. The committee will try its best to meet registration demand. Also, several Call for Proposals are open and awaiting your contributions.
We will be sharing more information with everyone here soon. Looking forward to LPC 2020 together with you.
We are pleased to announce that the Real-time Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference!
After another successful Real-time microconference at LPC last year, there’s still more to work to be done. The PREEMPT_RT patch set (aka “The Real-Time Patch”) was created in 2004 in the effort to make Linux into a hard real-time designed operating system. Over the years much of the RT patch has made it into mainline Linux, which includes: mutexes, lockdep, high resolution timers, Ftrace, RCU_PREEMPT, priority inheritance, threaded interrupts and much more. There’s just a little left to get RT fully into mainline, and the light at the end of the tunnel is finally in view. It is expected that the RT patch will be in mainline within a year (and possibly before Plumbers begins!), which changes the topics of discussion. Once it is in Linus’s tree, a whole new set of issues must be handled.
The focus on this years Plumbers events will include:
We hope to see you there!
We are pleased to announce that the Scheduler Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference!
The scheduler is an important functionality of the Linux kernel as it decides what gets to run, when and for how long. With different topologies and workloads this is no easy task to give the user the best experience possible. During the Scheduler microconference at LPC last year, we started the work to make SCHED_DEADLINE safe for kthreads and improving load balancing. This year, we continue working on core scheduling, unifying the interface for TurboSched and task latency nice, and continue the discussion on proxy execution.
Topics to be discussed include:
Come and join us in the discussion of controlling what tasks get to run on your machine and when. We hope to see you there!
We are pleased to announce that the Containers and Checkpoint/Restore Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference!
After another successful Containers Microconference last year , there’s still a lot more work to be done. Last year we discussed the intersection between the new mount api and containers, various new vfs features including a strong and fruitful discussion about id shifting, several new security hardening aspects, and improvements when restarting syscalls during checkpoint/restore. Last year’s microconference topics led to quite a few patches that have since landed in the upstream kernel with others actively being discussed. This includes, various improvements to seccomp syscall interceptions, the implementation of a new process creation syscall, the implementation of pidfds, and the addition of time namespaces.
This year’s topics include:
Come join us and participate in the discussion with what holds “The Cloud” together.
We hope to see you there!
Christian, Mike, Stéphane
As previously promised, we are announcing today that we have decided to hold the the Linux Plumbers Conference 2020 virtually instead of in person. We value the safety and health of our community and do not wish to expose anyone to unnecessary risks.
We do appreciate that it is the in-person aspect of plumbers (the hallway track) which attendees find the most valuable. An online Linux Plumbers Conference will clearly be different from past events. We are working hard to find ways to preserve as much of the LPC experience as we can while also taking advantage of any new opportunities that the online setting offers us. Since we no longer have many of the fixed expenses of an in-person conference, we are able to reduce the registration fee to $50. In addition we are pushing back the opening of registration to June 15 2020.
We’ll provide more details as we figure them out, thanks for your patience and support.
We do have great proposals and if you have submitted, thank you very much. Our microconference capacity is filling up quickly, if you want your microconference to be considered, act now! We are still looking for proposals for refereed talks as well.
CfP: https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/abstracts/
The LPC 2020 Planning Committee
We are pleased to announce that we have reopened the call for both refereed talks and microconferences. Due to the current global situation with the Covid-19 pandemic we wanted to give everybody a longer time window to submit proposals.
Submit your proposals here: https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/abstracts/
Stay tuned for further upcoming communications and updates about Linux Plumbers Conference 2020.
