The Tracing Summit 2018 will be held in Edinburgh, UK on October 25th, 2018, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, co-located with the Open Source Summit & Embedded Linux Conference 2018 in the Pentland Auditorium.
The Tracing Summit is single-day, single-track conference on the topic of tracing. The event focuses on the field of software and hardware tracing, gathering developers and end-users of tracing and trace analysis tools. The main goal of the Tracing Summit is to provide space for discussion between people of the various areas that benefit from tracing, namely parallel, distributed and/or real-time systems, as well as kernel development.
Schedule
- 9:00 – 9:05 Opening remarks
- 9:05 – 9:45 Evolution of Self-hosted tracing with Coresight (slides) (video), Suzuki K Poulose (ARM)
- 9:45 – 10:10 KernelShark 1.0 - transforming the GUI into a toolkit (slides) (video), Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
- 10:10 – 10:35 Making libtraceevent into a library (slides) (video), Steven Rostedt & Tzvetormir Stoyanov (VMware)
- 10:35 – 10:45 Break
- 10:45 – 11:15 Perfetto - Platform-wide performance instrumentation and tracing for Android and Chrome (slides), Primiano Tucci (Google)
- 11:15 – 11:55 Linux BPF Tracing with BPFtrace (slides) (video), Alastair Robertson (G-Research)
- 11:55 – 12:15 LTTng status update (slides) (video), Mathieu Desnoyers (EfficiOS)
- 12:15 - 13:45 Lunch (Attendees on Own)
- 13:45 – 14:25 Execution Flow Analysis Across Virtualized Environments for performance understanding and optimisation (slides) (video), Hani Nemati (Polytechnique Montréal) & François Tétreault (Ciena)
- 14:25 – 15:05 Are your interfaces used as expected? (slides) (video), Torsten Mosis (Systemticks GmbH.)
- 15:05 – 15:45 Introduction to OpenTracing (slides) (video), Juraci Paixão Kröhling (Redhat)
- 15:45 – 15:55 Break
- 15:55 – 16:35 A SPAN in the works: DCTV, SQL, and beyond (slides) (video), Daniel Colascione (Google)
- 16:35 – 17:15 Trace processing software application-specific performance optimization: the case of Babeltrace 2 (slides) (video), Philippe Proulx (EfficiOS)
- 17:15 – 17:45 perf: screwups (slides) (video), Jiri Olsa (RedHat)
- 17:45 End
Video
Talks will be recorded and made available on Youtube after the event. If you prefer your talk not to be recorded for whatever reason please let us know
Presentations
We are welcoming 30 minute presentations from both end users and developers, on topics covering, but not limited to:
- Investigation workflow of Real-Time, latency, and throughput issues,
- Trace collection and extraction,
- Trace filtering,
- Trace aggregation,
- Trace formats,
- Tracing multi-core systems,
- Trace abstraction,
- Trace modeling,
- Automated trace analysis (e.g. dependency analysis),
- Tracing large clusters and distributed systems,
- Hardware-level tracing (e.g. DSP, GPU, bare-metal),
- Trace visualisation,
- Interaction between debugging and tracing,
- Tracing remote control,
- Analysis of large trace datasets,
- Cloud trace collection and analysis,
- Integration between trace tools,
- Live tracing & monitoring,
- Programmable tracing (e.g. eBPF).
Those can cover recently available technologies, ongoing work, and yet non-existing technologies (which are compellingly interesting to end-users). Please understand that this open forum is not the proper place to present sales or marketing pitches, nor technologies which are prevented from being freely used in open source.
Registration
There are multiple ways to register to the Tracing Summit.
If you attend the Open Source Summit, you can add the Tracing Summit as a free addon during registration: here.
You can also register for free to the Tracing Summit without registering to the Open Source Summit here.
Presentation Proposals
If you are interested in presenting please submit a proposal to submission@tracingsummit.org before Sept 10th at 23:59 EST.
Please provide the following information:
- Talk title,
- Talk abstract (900 characters maximum),
- Description of the targeted audience (900 characters maximum),
- Short biography (900 characters maximum).
Contact
Organized by the Linux Foundation Diagnostic and Monitoring Workgroup.
Please send any query about this conference to info@tracingsummit.org.
The organizers responsible for this event are Francis Deslauriers and Mathieu Desnoyers.
Sponsors
The Tracing Summit is sponsored by EfficiOS.