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The FreeBSD Developer Summit associated with EuroBSDCon 2005 is occurring on Thursday, November 24 and Friday, November 25 2005, prior to the EuroBSDCon conference technical track. The second day of the developer summit overlaps with the conference tutorial track. The Developer Summit is a by-invitation event; please contact Max Laier for more information.
Thursday we will have lunch at the university cafeteria. Vera reserved a table for 20 +/- some. Food is available for 10,- CHF (7,- CHF if you can provide student-id).
On Friday we will join the tutorial crowd at a restaurant. Menu is 18,- CHF (non-alcoholic drinks included) and we were asked to precollect the money in order to make payment easier.
PHK does a tutorial friday morning. Many other attendees arrive during the day on Thursday.
We will hold the summit at the “Regenzzimmer” in the university ([http://map.search.ch/basel/petersplatz-1 map]). To get there you enter the university building at the main entrance “Petersplatz 1” go up the stairs (big stairway, hard to miss). On the upper level it's just 3 meters straight from the head of the stairs and there should be a sign as well.
Schedule ideas here:
Silby wishes to spend some time talking about how students interact with Fedora / other Linux distros and how this impacts FreeBSD.
10 minutes - Overview of Google's Summer of Code program, descriptions of projects and things that might be of general interest to developers, as well as brain-storming on potential future programs. (rwatson)
45 minutes - Discussion of network polling, device polling, interrupts, and things along those lines.
15 minutes - Discussion of models for parallelism in the network stack – where will adding more threads help, vs hurt. Related to polling discussion. (rwatson)
15 minutes - Formalizing the network stack device driver API – what should and shouldn't be documented as part of the API?
30 minutes - NFSv4 client, server. Do we jump on the NFSv4 bandwagon? Who wants to lend a hand? What do we get out of NFSv4 anyway?
Timekeeping, timecounters, precision and scheduler/resource accounting. (phk)
15 minutes - Lockless PFIL. (mlaier, andre)
30 minutes - New IPv4 SMP friendly routing table, changes to rtentry/rtsocket. (andre)
15 minutes - Removing inter-linking from INPCBs to allow parallesim for incoming packets. (andre, rwatson)
15 minutes - Incoming concurrent TCP segments on multiple CPUs, lockless per-TCPCB queue? (andre, rwatson)
30 minutes - Interface groups, implications for sockets, jails and (policy) routing. (andre)