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Wed, 30 May 2007

2007 Linux Kernel Summit.


I'm about to attend this meeting, although, frankly, I do not know, what to do there.
I do not know anyone there, unlikely that I will participate in discussions about filesystems or virtualization (which, it looks so, are the hottest toppics).
Kevent is in the topic list (several months ago, before eventfd was committed into the tree, it was on the main board), but it is unlikely I will cook up a presentation about it (politics is boring, so I will not dig into that swamp).

Networking presentation might be interesting (at least for me), so I could create something to show how kernel misuse netlink at startup (millions of small messages sent during startup), how I see unified socket storage being a good approach, how memory power-of-two overhead ends up eating tons of memory in network path, I could even recall netchannels and related problems.
Hardware crypto is being in the presentation topics, so I could dig there too, but my opinion will not be 100% without bias :)
I also have quite a few interesting ideas related to filesystem development, but until something is ready, that is not a right way to handwave...

Although I've created a first slide for any presentation, which could be done by me:
... Name of the presentation ...
Run away - author is not a native english speaker.

We will see. I'm gathering info about Cambridge and kernel summit itself.

Thinking more about above stuff, it looks like presentation would be too technical, and thus it is better to handle it via e-mails. What is the hottest topic in the e-mail lists? That should be discussed at kernel summit, not how to create yet another good or bad feature for Linux kernel. So, it looks like politics will be the hottest theme. Another good, from my point of view, presentatino topic is iteraction with userspace, especially if something will be beaten there - people like to see such things, and obviously userbase of such changes is much wider.

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