[PLUG] Unofficial announcement for PLUG Advanced Topics - October 15, 2007

[Alan Olsen]

On 10/13/07, Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> wrote:
>
> Alan wasn't feeling well yesterday, so that may be the reason for
> there not being an announcement.


Sorry about that. Migraines are a bitch.


>  In any event, here's an unofficial
> announcement for Monday's AT talk.  Note that there is a slight
> possibility that the subject of the talk may change.


About as official as it is going to get at this point...

Yes we have an Advanced Topics and it should be good.

Thanks for sending that out.


PLUG Advanced Topics Meeting
>
> October 15th, 2007  7pm
>
> Jax Bar
> 826 SW 2nd Avenue
> Portland, Oregon
>
> Speaker: Mark Gross
>            Intel
>
> Title:  "Power Management Quality of Service (PM_QOS)"
>
> Power Management Quality of Service is a new-ish idea pushed by Mark
> at the Linux PM summit in June 2007.  It is based on the notion that
> if drivers knew performance constraints as defined by other subsystems
> and applications, then they would have all the information they need
> to do automatic, and nearly optimal, power management.
>
> This talk describes the idea in terms of a generalization of an
> existing kernel mechanism, its design, implementation, and talks about
> where the technique is expected to work and not work.  The current
> patch has just been posted and is getting some time in the MM tree
> now.  We are hoping to get it into the 2.6.25 kernel, along with more
> PM_QOS applications.
>
>
> Mark Gross is an Engineer in the Open Source Technology center at
> Intel Corporation. He primarily works on telecommunication computing
> platform Linux OS support for Intel, along with some additional
> activities. Mark is also the chair of the power management working
> group for the Consumer Electronics Linux forum. Mark is a robotics
> hobbyist and participates in PARTS http://portlandrobotics.org and the
> occasional Dorkbot http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotpdx/ get together.
>
>
> Standard meeting rules apply.
>
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