linux-kernel - Re: Scheduler BOF @ LinuxCon.EU/ELCE

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Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:36:07 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Scheduler BOF @ LinuxCon.EU/ELCE

On 10/17/2011 09:35 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> several people have expressed interest of talking to me about the
> scheduler during the RTLWS/KS/LinuxCon.EU time-frame. Since I've just
> about lost track of who all wanted to talk about what and who can and
> can not make it out to Prague I need help ;-)
>
> Also, since I'm too dis-organized (and mostly busy) to really arrange
> something, can someone volunteer to arrange a BOF or cafe with beer to
> discuss things?
>
> The topics I'm most interested in are:
>
>   - power optimized load-balancing;
>      do packing based on cpu utilization
>      fix the current interface of sched_{mc,ht}_power_savings
>
>   - integration of the cpufreq/idle governors and the scheduler
>      use the idle guestimate for NO_HZ
>      use $foo for $prev-topic to reduce double accounting etc.
>
>   - what can we do about the cgroup crap and how can we win some
>     of the performance back;
>      start with fixing the cgroup enabled but unused case
>      continue from there..

definitely count me in for that.

I won't be in for KS, just linuxcon, and I am busy on Wed 26th.
I believe Steve Roasted's (*) suggestion is a sane one: Many of us
will be in other meetings during this time frame, so maybe is saner to 
find a free slot in the conference agenda.

(*) not a typo
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