Quarterly Meeting: RHEL Performance Features & Tuning (RSVP via link below)

RSVP at https://events.redhat.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x31028abcd

Join us for our Quarterly Meeting!

Quarterly meetings feature a longer program in the afternoon at an offsite location. We'll start with networking time with drinks and appetizers before our main program on RHEL performance.

Doug Shakshober, Larry Woodman, and Andrea Arcangeli, and Joe Mario will present a variety of RHEL performance features, tuning techniques, and performance characterizations, including:

• Kernel performance tuning
• Architectural changes
• NvDIMMs, Memory Mode
• TCP/UDP improvements
• Multi-Q improvements
• XFS (journals) w/ Database
• cgroup-v2
• perf tool new features
• Cockpit
• Network, I/O
• Security CVE update

SPEAKERS

Doug Shakshober, Senior Manager Software Engineering & Senior Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

Douglas Shakshober (Shak) is a senior consulting engineer and director of the Performance Engineering team at Red Hat. His team focuses on characterization, optimization, and performance of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel, KVM virtualization technology, Red Hat Open Stack Platform, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Storage Server. The team uses benchmarks and partners with OEMs and ISVs to test applications in high-end databases, web servers, and enterprise environments. Shak has a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Larry Woodman, Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

Larry Woodman has over 36 years of operating system kernel development experience. He started contributing to the AT&T system V UNIX kernel in 1981 at Bell Labs. Over the years he has worked on several versions of UNIX as well as several proprietary operating systems for a variety of hardware and software vendors. For the past 20 years Larry has been working on the Linux kernel, mostly for Red Hat. The majority of work has been mostly in the memory management, process management and inter process communication spaces but also includes work on file systems, hardware support code and device drivers. Larry holds Bachelors degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Computer Science and Masters degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

Andrea Arcangeli, Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

Andrea joined Qumranet and then Red Hat in 2008 because of
his interest in working on the KVM Virtualization Hypervisor, with a
special interest in Virtual Machine Memory Management. He worked on
many parts of the Linux Kernel, especially on the Virtual Memory
subsystem. Andrea started working with Linux in his spare time shortly
after first connecting to the internet back in 1996 while studying at
University. He enjoys spending most of his time solving software
problems and promoting the adoption of Linux and Open Source software
everywhere.

Joe Mario, Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat

Joe has worked in compiler and operating system performance teams for the past 2​7 years. ​He spent years implementing compiler and tool optimizations in the OS and customer code for three different operating systems. His recent focus has been on co-developing a tool to detect cpu cacheline false sharing, low latency tuning, and performance work for recent Spectre-Meltdown type security issues. Joe holds a Bachelors degree is Electrical Engineering, and a Masters degree in Computer Science.