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Tuesday July 18th, 2006

12h00-20h00Sign in Desk Open

Wednesday July 19th, 2006


TimeRoom ARoom BRoom CRoom D
08h00Sign in Desk Open
10h00 The Kernel Report
Jonathan Corbet
10:45Break (15 Minutes)
11h00Enabling Docking Station Support for the Linux Kernel is Harder Than You Would Think
Kristen Carlson Accardi
Open Source Graphic Drivers - They Don't Kill Kittens
David M Airlie
kboot - A Boot Loader Based on Kexec
Werner Almesberger
Write a real, working Linux driver
Greg Kroah-Hartman
11h45Break (15 Minutes)
12h00Ideas on Improving Development Tools to Benefit Performance on Multi-core CPUs
Maxim Alt
A Reliable and Portable Multimedia File System
Joo-Young Hwang
Utilizing IOMMUs for Virtualization in Linux and Xen
Muli Ben-Yehuda
Tutorial: Write a real, working Linux driver (Part 2)
12h45Lunch
14h00Towards a Highly Adaptable Filesystem Framework for Linux
Suparna Bhattacharya
Multiple Instances of the Global Linux Namespaces
Eric W. Biederman
Fully Automated Testing of the Linux Kernel
Martin Bligh
A Step by Step Introduction to Writing (or Undestanding) a Linux Filesystem
Steve French
14h45Break (15 Minutes)
15h00Linux Laptop Battery Life
Len Brown
The Frysk Execution Analysis Architecture
Andrew Cagney
Exploring High Bandwidth Filesystems on Large Systems
David Chinner
Debugging Linux kernel using Kdump
Vivek Goyal
15h45Break (15 Minutes)
16h00 ondemand 2.0: A "New and Improved" Dynamic CPU Frequency Governor
Venkatesh Pallipadi
Catalyzing Open Driver Development
Darrick J Wong
Dynamic Device Handling on the Modern Desktop
Kay Sievers
Tutorial: Debugging Linux using Kdump (Part 2)
16h45Dinner Break
17h00Women in Linux: Speed Mentoring
Kristen Carlson Accardi
GIT BOF
Petr Baudis
Embedded Linux BOF
Tim R. Bird
Practical Kernel Security Development
Michael Austin Halcrow
17h45Break (15 Minutes)
18h00Closing the Gates on Closed Source: Competing for Africa with no holds barred
Christine L.E.V. Hansen
BOF: NSA Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
Stephen Smalley
BOF on RealTime issues
Dinakar Guniguntala
In kernel memory allocation for systems without memory management
David McCullough
18h45Break (15 Minutes)
19h00Power Management BOF
Mark Gross
GOSLING / Canadian Copyright update
Russell McOrmond
AppArmor Application Security
Crispin Cowan
Tracing BOF
William E. Cohen
19h45Break (15 Minutes)
20h00Welcome Reception, Sponsored by Intel

Thursday July 20th, 2006


TimeRoom ARoom BRoom CRoom D
09h00Sign in Desk Open
10h00 The effects of filesystem fragmentation
Ard Biesheuvel
The LTTng tracer : A Low Impact Performance and Behavior Monitor for GNU/Linux.
Mathieu Desnoyers
Transparent Paravirtualization for Linux
Zachary Amsden
Porting a 2.4.20 character driver for legacy hardware to 2.6.15
Mark Gross
10:45Break (15 Minutes)
11h00 System Firmware Updates Utilizing Software Repositories
Matt Domsch
The Need for Asynchronous Network I/O, Problems, and Possible Solutions
Ulrich Drepper
Xen 3.1 and the Art of Virtualization
Ian Pratt
Packaging with Conary
Michael K. Johnson
11h45Break (15 Minutes)
12h00perfmon2: a Flexible Performance Monitoring Interface for Linux
Stephane Eranian
OCFS2: The Oracle Clustered File System, Version 2
Mark Fasheh
GIT - A Stupid Content Tracker
Junio C Hamano
Tutorial: Packaging with Conary (Part 2)
12h45Lunch
14h00Hrtimers and Beyond: Transforming the Linux Time Subsystems
Thomas Gleixner
The What, The Why and the Where To of Anti-Fragmentation
Mel Gorman
Playing BlueZ on the D-Bus
Marcel Holtmann
Using Cogito and GIT
Petr Baudis
14h45Break (15 Minutes)
15h00Shortening fsck Time on ext2
Val Henson
Native POSIX Threads Library (NPTL) Support for uClibc.
Steven J Hill
tgt: Framework for Storage Target Drivers
Tomonori Fujita
Git Tutorial Tour
Jon Loeliger
15h45Break (15 Minutes)
16h00 FS-Cache: A Network Filesystem Caching Facility
David Howells
Evolution in the Kernel Debugging Utilizing Hardware Virtualization With Xen
Nitin A Kamble
Why Userspace Sucks - (Or, 101 Really Dumb Things Your App Shouldn't Do)
Dave Jones
Populating initramfs with BusyBox and uClibc.
Rob Landley
16h45Dinner Break
17h00IBM/Freescale PowerPC BOFSLinux Containers BOF
Dave Hansen
Bridging the digital divide and educating the children
David Hellier
The kernel key management facility: where are we, and where to go
David Howells
17h45Break (15 Minutes)
18h00IBM/Freescale PowerPC BOFSNUMA Memory and Performance BOF
Christoph H. Lameter
Hugetlbfs BOF
Adam G. Litke
Active Block I/O Scheduling System (ABISS)
Werner Almesberger
18h45Break (15 Minutes)
19h00IBM/Freescale PowerPC BOFSLinux on a Laptop
Patrick Mochel
Linux Dynamic Instrumentation: Status and future enhancements
Vara Prasad
Xen BOF
Ian Pratt
19h45Break (15 Minutes)
20h00IBM/Freescale PowerPC BOFSDynamic Power Management
Dipankar Sarma
High-Availability Linux (Linux-HA) Birds of a Feather Meeting
Alan L Robertson
cryptographic subsystems in linux
Michael C Richardson

Friday July 21st, 2006


TimeRoom ARoom BRoom CRoom D
09h00Sign in Desk Open
10h00 Improving Linux Startup Time Using Software Resume (and other techniques)
Hiroki KAMINAGA
Automated Detection of Kernel Regressions
James M Kenefick
Hacking the Linux Automounter - Current Limitations and Future Directions
Jeffrey E Moyer
More Linux for Less
Robin Getz
10:45Break (15 Minutes)
11h00 Why NFS Sucks
Olaf Kirch
Efficient Use of the Page Cache with 64K Pages
Dave Kleikamp
Startup Time in the 21st Century: Filesystem Hacks and Assorted Tweaks
Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
Linux Clustering for Business
Douglas M. Pierce
11h45Break (15 Minutes)
12h00Making Applications Mobile Under Linux
Cedric Le Goater
Using Hugetlbfs for Mapping Application Text Regions
H.J. Lu
Towards a Better SCM: Revlog and Mercurial
Matt Mackall
Reverse Engineering USB Drivers for Compatibility
Eric Preston
12h45Lunch
14h00Roadmap to a GL-based composited desktop for Linux
Kevin E Martin
Probing the Guts of Kprobes
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
Shared Page Tables Redux
Dave McCracken
A Tutorial on CPU/Memory/IO Hotplug in Linux
Ashok Raj
14h45Break (15 Minutes)
15h00Extending RCU for Realtime and Embedded Workloads
Paul E McKenney
MD RAID Acceleration and the ADMA Interface
Dan J Williams
Design and Implementation to Support Multiple Key Exchange Protocol for IPsec
Kazunori Miyazawa
Practical Kernel Debugging with Kprobes
Dave Boutcher
15h45Break (15 Minutes)
16h00 The State of Linux Power Management 2006
Patrick Mochel
Divorcing Linux kernel analysis tools from kernel version
Maneesh Soni
Automatic System for Linux Kernel Performance Testing
Alexander Ufimtsev
Dark Arts Revealed: How to read Kernel Oopses and More
Olaf Kirch
16h45Dinner Break
17h00The State of Linux Security
Doc Shankar
ext3 filesystem enhancements
BADARI PULAVARTY
Linux generic storage model
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Reinitialization of devices after a kexec reboot (fastboot)
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
17h45Break (15 Minutes)
18h00Linux Standard Base BOF
Mats Wichmann
Moving Forward to Deploy Real, Seamless IPv6 Ready Platform
Hideaki Yoshifuji
BOF: Embedded Microcontroller Linux (uClinux / Linux without mmu)
Michael Durrant
Transparent Inter Process Communication BOF
Randy W. MacLeod
18h45Break (15 Minutes)
19h00parisc bofs
Kyle McMartin
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19h45Break (15 Minutes)
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Saturday July 22nd, 2006


TimeRoom ARoom BRoom CRoom D
10h00Sign in Desk Open
11h00 GCC - An Architectural Overview, Current Status and Future Directions
Diego Novillo
Measuring Resource Demand in Linux
Rik van Riel
UnionFS: User and Community-oriented Development of a Unioning Filesystem
Josef Sipek
Evaluating Linux Kernel Crash Dumping Mechanisms
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
11h45Break (15 Minutes)
12h00Linux Bootup Time Reduction for Digital Still Camera
ChanJu Park
Collaborative Memory Management in Hosted Linux Systems
Martin Schwidefsky
Linux as a Hypervisor - An Update
Jeff Dike
Problem Solving With Systemtap
Frank Ch. Eigler
12h45Break (15 Minutes)
13h00A Lockless Pagecache in Linux - Introduction, Progress, Performance
Nick Piggin
Resizing Memory With Balloons and Hotplug
Joel H Schopp
Improving the Approach to Linux Performance Analysis
Jose R Santos
HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix
Kuniyasu Suzaki
13h45Lunch Break
15h00Shared-Subtree Concept, Implementation and Applications in Linux
Ram Pai
NFSv4 Test Project.
Tony Reix
I/O Workload Fingerprinting in the Genetic-Library
Jake Moilanen
Virtual Scalability: Charting the Performance of Linux in a Virtual World
Andrew Theurer
15h45Break (15 Minutes)
16h00Keynote Address Keynote
Greg Kroah-Hartman
18h00GPG Keysigning
20h00Final Event ~ Blackthorn Cafe

Sunday July 23rd, 2006

11h00Hacker Bike Ride
Richard Guy Briggs

  • Presentation 86 is not included in the schedule.
  • Presentation 102 is not included in the schedule.


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