[ANNOUNCE] CFP: Real-Time Microconference - Linux Plumbers Conference 2021

[ANNOUNCE] CFP: Real-Time Microconference - Linux Plumbers Conference 2021

[Daniel Bristot de Oliveira]

The Real-time microconference focuses on finishing the last lap of getting the
PREEMPT_RT[1] patch set into mainline. Many of these missing pieces, however, 
are not at the core of real-time features (like locking, and scheduling), but 
instead, on other subsystems that compose the kernel, like file systems and 
memory management. Making this Linux subsystems compatible with PREEMPT_RT 
requires finding a solution that is acceptable by subsystem maintainer, without 
having these subsystems suffer from performance or complexity issues.

Suggested Topics:
 - New tools for PREEMPT_RT analysis [2].
 - How do we teach the rest of the kernel developers how not to break
   PREEMPT_RT?
 - Stable maintainers tools discussion & improvements: [3]
 - The usage of PREEMPT_RT on safety-critical systems: what do we need to do?
 - Make NAPI and the kernel-rt working better together [5]
 - Migrate disable and the problems that they cause on rt tasks [6]
 - It is time to discuss the "BKL"-like style of our preempt/bh/irq_disable()
   synchronization functions.
 - How do we close the documentation gap
 - The status of the merge, and how can we resolve the last issues that block
   the merge
 - Invite the developers of the areas where patches are still under discussion 
   to help to find an agreement
 - How can we improve the testing of the -rt, to follow the problems raised as    
   Linus tree advances?
 - What’s next?

If you are interested in participating in this microconference and have topics 
to propose, please use the LPC CfP process, and select "Real-time MC" for the 
"Track". More topics will be added based on CfP for LPC microconference.

MC leads:
 - Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
 - Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
 - Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
 - Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
 - Kate Stewart <stewart@linux.com>

 
Links:
[1] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/start
[2] https://github.com/bristot/rtsl/
[3] https://github.com/igaw/stable-rt-tools
[4] https://www.linux.com/news/in-the-trenches-with-thomas-gleixner-real-time-linux-kernel-patch-set/
[5] Discussions:
        https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210514222402.295157-1-kuba@kernel.org/
        https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YJofplWBz8dT7xiw@localhost.localdomain/
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20200924082717.GA1362448@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/T/