Tim Witham, Nathan ?, Gerrit Huizenga, Paul Jackson, Mathew Barnes, John Hawkes, Richard Griffith, Steve Carbonari, Terry Prickett, Bill Hartner, Peter Wong, Jonathan Lahr, Hans Tannenberger, Hanna Linder, Ruth Forester, Dave Olien, Pat Gaughen, Jack Vogel, Paul McKenney A brief summary: I. Tim Witham from the Open Source Development Lab presented their new Scalable Test Platform. It looks like it is going to be a great tool. You can check your patches into their CVS tree and pick the tests and machines to run them on then get email with the results (I think that is how it works). Check out the web site at: http://www.osdlab.org/stp use login guest password guest to look around and see what they have available. They also have a sourceforge project at: http://stp.sourceforge.net II. Jonathan Lahr talked about his io_request_lock patch and some performance results should come out soon. III. Dave Olien described his I/O APIC routing patch for IA 32 systems. He assigns priorities to processes then routes interrupts to the lower priority processes. He will backport the patch from 2.4.9 to 2.4.4. and 2.4.6 for groups in IBM and Intel to apply to some of their test machines. IV. A bit of benchmarking and test results talk with some coordination of which patches to test on which systems. V. Discussion of where to go after finishing current projects (ie- which locks are next in line of high contention). Next call Friday September 21st. Please send agenda items to the list or hlinder@us.ibm.com by the 20th.