Linux Plumbers Conf 2009

Real Time Linux (and Raz Ben Yehuda's Offline Scheduler)

Discuss design and plans for the ongoing implementation of Checkpoint/Restart in mainline linux

This is a large SMP BoF where the speaker/moderator will be presenting his experience with performance issues and solutions employed on ScaleMP vSMP Foundation based large SMP/NUMA systems. These issues are relevant to other large SMP/NUMA architectures as well.

State of threaded interrupt handlers in mainline. What is there and what needs to be dome.

Overview over the state of preempt-rt, the mainline merge status and key changes required.

Describe the implementation, benefits and trade-offs of running without non-fatal System Management Interrupts in a Real-Time Enterprise level environment.

Discussion on a new real-time micro-benchmark suite and how it can help real-time overcome some challenges it faces, such as making apples-to-apples comparisons with other platforms, and how various programming languages compare in the real-time arena.

The moral of the story is, we still load too much stuff, and it takes too long to do it. Users (and developers) want time to go down, while things continue to get more complicated. How can we sort that out?

Presenting Upstart 1.0

Introduction of a new initramfs generation tool, which creates a general purpose udev event based initramfs.

Implementing power management is the job of the kernel - however, it's userspace's job to let it know what functionality is needed. What interfaces do we need to expose, and how should userspace be making use of them?

USB 3.0 promises a faster, more power efficient common device bus. Is Linux ready for it?

Requirements and challenges in implementation of Checkpoint/ Restart in Linux mainline.

This talk addresses relationship between embedded developers and the Linux community

This talk will discuss problems faced by designers of multicore systems with multiple kernels, with an emphasis on solutions across developer communities.

Session to discuss the work required to make the Flattened Device Tree method of describing hardware available to all architectures.

The Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device (OSWALD) is an open, fully featured Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) platform designed by and for students. Come learn about the design, the software hacks, and issues in getting Linux to run smoothly on a custom made hand-held platform.