The 2004 Kernel Summit
The 2004 Kernel Summit was scheduled for July 19 and 20, immediately prior
to the Ottawa Linux Symposium. For those who are interested, the advance agenda is available.
LWN editor Jonathan Corbet was a member of the program committee and
attended the event; the following is his report.
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Monday
Monday got off to a bit of a slow start; it seems that some of the developers may have enjoyed themselves a bit too much at the opening dinner the night before. Summit attendees also had a serious problem: ISP troubles keep the wireless network down all day, so there was little alternative to actually listening to the ongoing sessions. That said, a constructive set of discussions was held with little overt disagreement among the participants.Monday's sessions include:
- The processor panel. Engineers from
Intel, AMD, and IBM discussed where their architectures are going and
the implications for the Linux kernel.
- Virtual memory, with special attention
to the topics of NUMA support, hotpluggable memory, and page
clustering.
- Software suspend; what will it take
before we can reliably suspend and restore our systems?
- Kobjects and sysfs, and what needs to
be done to get the developers to complain about them less in 2.7.
- Video drivers, featuring a cameo
appearance by Keith Packard.
- Desktop performance. Robert Love led a
discussion on how the Linux kernel can better support desktop
applications.
- Short topics, being an opportunity for developers to present an interesting issue in five minutes.
Tuesday
Tuesday's coverage is now complete. This long day was set aside for a wide range of topics, from customer experiences to clustering, to the development process. The individual sessions were:
- The customer panel was a discussion led
by technical managers from Goldman Sachs and Amazon.com; they talked
about the problems they have with Linux and how the kernel could
better support their needs.
- Clustered storage and just what
capabilities need to go into the kernel to support this feature.
- Kexec and fast booting; what is
required to make the Linux kernel boot in a reasonable period of time?
- RAS tools, with an emphasis on simple
tools to help track down kernel reliability problems.
- Networking summit summary. One week
prior to the kernel summit, a small group got together in Oregon for a
two-day networking summit. Stephen
Hemminger summarized the results for the kernel group.
- Asynchronous I/O; a session on what
is required to make AIO work properly under Linux, and whether it is
worth doing.
- Multipath I/O and device mapper issues.
- Virtualization, running virtual
machines under (and on top of) Linux.
- Security. Linux has acquired a great
many security features over the last few years; what other work is
required in that area?
- Class-based Kernel Resource
Management.
- OSDL relations. How does the Open
Source Development Labs relate with the development community, and
how can that relationship be improved?
- The final session was about the development process; have a look to see what was said about when the 2.7 development series will begin - the answer is not quite what one would expect.
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Posted Jul 20, 2004 22:05 UTC (Tue) by johnny (guest, #10110) [Link]
It'd be nice if there were recordings of the talks that could be downloaded. It's nice to beable to listen to the talks, both because it's nice to sometimes be able to close your eyes
and just listen (no, Festival doesn't cut it ;)), and also because you would get the exact
wording of the speeches.
If anyone knows url's to sound files from Kernel Summits or other Linux related material, I'd
be very interested to know about it. Technetcast at Doctor Dobb's seems to have stopped
adding new material a couple of years ago :(.
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Posted Jul 20, 2004 22:35 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]
The kernel summit wasn't recorded this year, for various reasons, so no recordings will be posted. That may change next year, maybe.
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Posted Jul 23, 2004 8:09 UTC (Fri) by nurhussein (guest, #16226) [Link]
What about OLS? That's recorded every year right?
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Posted Aug 8, 2004 0:11 UTC (Sun) by uriel (guest, #20754) [Link]
I remember listening to the recordings from 2 years ago, I enjoyed it very much.
It would be nice if it was done for next year...