Last week, I attended the Linux Storage, Filesystems, and Memory Management summit (LSF/MM) on Monday and Tuesday, and the Linux Collaboration Summit (aka Collab) from Wednesday through Friday. Both events were held at the Meritage Resort in Napa, CA. This was by invitation of some Linux developers who wanted to find out more about what PostgreSQL needs from the Linux kernel. Andres Freund and I attended on behalf of the PostgreSQL community; Josh Berkus was present for part of the time as well.
My overall impression is that it was a good week, except that by Thursday the combination of 14 hour days and jet lag were catching up with me in a big way. However, from the point of view of the PostgreSQL project, I think it was very positive. On Monday, Andres and I had an hour-and-a-half slot; we used about an hour and fifteen minutes of that time. Our big complaint was with the Linux kernel's fsync behavior, but we talked about some other issues as well, including double buffering, transparent huge pages, and zone reclaim mode.
Read more »
My overall impression is that it was a good week, except that by Thursday the combination of 14 hour days and jet lag were catching up with me in a big way. However, from the point of view of the PostgreSQL project, I think it was very positive. On Monday, Andres and I had an hour-and-a-half slot; we used about an hour and fifteen minutes of that time. Our big complaint was with the Linux kernel's fsync behavior, but we talked about some other issues as well, including double buffering, transparent huge pages, and zone reclaim mode.
Read more »