Linux Scalability Effort - Call on 2/9/01 ----------------------------------------- o Attendees: Tim Wright-IBM, Ken Rosendal-IBM, John Hawkes-SGI, John Wright-SGI Steve Carbonari-Intel, John Hansen-Intel, Sunil Saxena-Intel, o John Wright calling briefly... Last time, Hans asked for numa-api (sgi) definition...feedback from Kanoj and other bits and pieces of people doing work, AR - John Wright to send ....needs to format and will send out next week when he gets back. Its work in progress - need feedback from IBM & Intel, Based on Irix etc. o Tim Wright Update More work on scheduler...SCO provided a useful ptr to place in the code....helpful....patched that up. Great results, much better on the 8-way. Jonathan doing ...benchmark. 2way...4way scheduler... Mike invited to the 2.5 Planning meeting in March for scheduler stuff. Very positive. Some people went to LinuxWorld, developer den quiet, not too many participants maybe the wrong conference - too business oriented. They tried. o F2F in Beaverton on 2/14 at LTC o SGI-John Hawkes to attend, John Wright will be OOP. John Wright suggesting John Hawkes or Ananth (SGI) cover unless meeting is rescheduled. John Wright heading out...... If rescheduling, Any day after Wednesday fine with John Wright o John Hansen overviewed the Scalability F2F Agenda Intel to share Scalability task list, preferences, work to understand others efforts. Lisa Perry (IBM/SRM) working on the room. AR-John Hansen and Tim Wright to work with the SRM's to finalize agenda and logistics for 2/14 F2F at LTC. Make Sure SGI also on the agenda. o Tim Wright's Objectives for F2F Plan to give everyone an update on what IBM working on, where do they expect to interact with others... Performance & Benchmarking people to attend meeting. Find out where we overlap? ...needs help in running real benchmarks and how to run those. How do they work together on that? Talking to the Performance group in Austin.... Forcefully communicated, conduct all conversations in public...want on the lse tech mailing list. Want to thrash out who can do what. Lisa and Luann (SRMs) to finalize the agenda. Summarizing: Where are we? who to sign up for what, do we see holes? o Steve Carbonari's Goal: Finalize the task list (SGI, IBM, Intel), want to walk out with the tasks we will do, IBM, SGI, etc. Intel, and whats open. Want to post tasklist on the website and then give the opens to the community. Put stake in the ground. o Tim Wright caution: nothing set in stone. Community will shape us moving forward. All agreed o Sunil - IBM and Intel have a task list...SGI? o John Hawkes:....get SGI on the agenda also. Pin down the start time. for John Hawkes. May come in Tuesday evening. AR-John Hansen/Tim Wright to work with SRMs provide Maps to All participants. Sunil Saxena, John Hawkes, and others will need a map. Also, get list of people to attend. AR-John Hansen to work with Luann/Lisa to get agenda published early e.g. Monday noon.