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The schedule is subject to change.
VENUE MAP
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All times are listed in Central European Summer Time (CEST / UTC+2)FS

Meeting Room:
Emerald Ballroom

Christian Brauner
Amir Goldstein
Jan Kara		Storage/IO

Meeting Room: Istanbul 1+2

Martin K. Petersen
Javier González		MM

Meeting Room: Venice

Matthew Wilcox
Vlastimil Babka		BPF

Meeting Room: Paris 2+3

Martin KaFai Lau
Daniel Borkmann
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Monday, 4 May, 2026
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06:45Running BOF (Hotel Lobby) - Matthew Wilcox
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08:00Registration: Pre-function
Continental Breakfast: Pre-function; seating in Emerald Ballroom

If you’ve booked within the conference room block at the Esplanade Zagreb Hotel, your room rate includes a full buffet breakfast.
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09:00Conference opening
Meeting Room: Emerald Ballroom
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09:30[Emerald, FS+IO]

Bufferred Atomic Writes
(Usecase & Discussion with Postgres)

Pankaj Raghav
Andres Freund		Damon Updates

Access Aware THP

NUMA Hinting Faults

SJ Park
Compiled BPF: Status update on GCC BPF and discussion on open and current issues
- Jose E. Marchesi
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10:00[Emerald, FS+IO]

Bufferred Atomic Writes
(The writethrough approach)

Ojaswin Mujoo		GCC BPF CO-RE support state & discussion of next steps
- Cupertino Miranda
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10:30MM process

Andrew Morton
BTF, DWARF, compiler inlining and kernel build system
- David Faust
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11:00Break: Pre-function
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11:30[Emerald, FS+IO]

FDP File I/O (Streams)

Kanchan Joshi		Large Memory Allocation

Kiryl Shutsemau
Ryan Roberts

[Owl needed (Dev Jain)]		Continuation work to encode true signatures in vmlinux BTF
- Yonghong Song, Alan Maguire
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12:00[Emerald, FS+IO]

Filesystems and Protection Information

Anuj Gupta		[Owl needed (Nick)] Progress on BTF linking and deduplication using the toolchain
- Nick Alcock, Bruce McClulloch
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12:30[Emerald, FS+IO]

eBPF-driven Data Placement Hint

Naohiro Aota		1GiB THP

Usama Arif
BPF in the agentic era
- Alexei Starovoitov
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13:00Lunch in Zinfandel's Restaurant at the Esplanade Zagreb Hotel
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14:30[Emerald, FS+IO+MM]

Memory Fragmentation with Large Blocks

Hannes Reinecke		Progress with scalar evolution for BPF verifier (improvements to loop handling in BPF programs)
- Eduard Zingerman
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15:00[Emerald, IO+MM]

dma-buf Read/Write

Pavel Begunkov, Anuj Gupta, Nitesh Shetty		[Owl needed] Improving the BPF verifier's dead branch checks
- Srinivas Narayana, Santosh Nagarakatte, Harishankar Vishwanathan
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15:30[Emerald, FS+IO]

Copy Offload XII

Bart Van Assche, Nitesh Shetty		[Venice, MM]

mshare

Anthony Yznaga		Coroutines in BPF
- Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
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16:00Break: Pre-function
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16:30Reducing fs clutter -
policy for adding new fs and deprecating old fs

Amir Goldstein
[Owl needed]		NVMe TCP Topology-Aware Scaling

Nilay Shroff		A kernel pagetable library

Brendan Jackman		Supporting more than 5 parameters in BPF function calls and kfuncs
- Yonghong Song
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17:00VFS idmappings support in NFS

Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn
[Owl needed]		NVMe Cross-Controller Reset (CQT)

Randy Jennings		Anonymous Reverse Mapping

Lorenzo Stoakes		Adding KASAN support for JITed programs
- Alexis Lothoré
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17:30xattr caching

Miklos Szeredi
[Owl needed]		NVMe Fabrics at Scale

Daniel Wagner		Policy Groups

Chris Li		BPF on arm64: Closing the performance gap
- Puranjay Mohan
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18:00Group Photo
Location: Zinfandel's Restaurant Patio
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18:30Evening Event
The Garden Brewery & Taproom
(Slavonska avenija 26/1, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia)
Transportation provided
Departures from Esplanade Zagreb Hotel: 18:15, 18:25, 18:45
Return departures: 20:00, 20:15, 20:30, 20:45
Times are subject to change.
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Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
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06:45Running BOF (Hotel Lobby) - Matthew Wilcox
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08:30Registration: Pre-function
Continental Breakfast: Pre-function; seating in Emerald Ballroom

If you’ve booked within the conference room block at the Esplanade Zagreb Hotel, your room rate includes a full buffet breakfast.
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09:30
[Emerald, FS+MM]

Filesystem inode reclaim

Jan Kara		NVMe Controller Data Queue (CDQ)

Joel Granados
[Emerald, FS+MM]

Filesystem inode reclaim

Jan Kara		BPF Arena Libraries (https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/DG5I0HN5PK5E.226I37YS7YY2P@etsalapatis.com/)
- Emil Tsalapatis
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10:00[Emerald, FS+MM]

Direct reclaim scalability

Boris Burkov		NVMe Fabrics Control Device Error Handling

Hannes Reinecke		[Emerald, FS+MM]

Direct reclaim scalability

Boris Burkov		Recent and future work for BPF local storage
- Amery Hung
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10:30Stale kernel cache after file appendNVMe Target Features via eBPF

Hannes Reinecke		[Emerald, MM]

HugeTLB preservation across live update

Pratyush Yadav		kmalloc_nolock() follow ups, including kfree_rcu_nolock()
- Alexei Starovoitov, Harry (Hyeonggon) Yoo
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11:00Break: Pre-function
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11:30[Venice, FS]

fanotify update		I/O Overhead Compared to SPDK

Nitesh Shetty		[Emerald, MM]

Page cache tracking with the Maple Tree

Liam Howlett
Follow-up: BPF in the agentic era

BPF maintainer Q&A
and upstream patch reviews
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12:00[Venice, FS]

overlayfs updates		Native SCSI Multipathing

John Garry		[Emerald, MM+BPF]
Using BPF in MM (OOM handling, PSI handling, memcg management, cache_ext, etc)
- Roman Gushchin
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12:30[Venice, FS]

Jan's buffer heads work		NVMe Stretched/Dispersed Subsystems

Randy Jennings		[Emerald, MM+BPF]
Reimagining Memory Cgroup (memcg_ext)
- Shakeel Butt
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13:00Lunch in Zinfandel's Restaurant at the Esplanade Zagreb Hotel
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14:30[Venice, FS]

kicking off writeback sooner

[Owl needed]		Storage Standards
Update

Fred Knight		[Emerald, MM]

Swap status and roadmap

Kairui Song		Lessons learned from deploying BPF/Tetragon to embedded/switching gear
- John Fastabend
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15:00[Venice, FS]

limit negative dentries		[Emerald, IO+MM]

Flash-Friendly Swap

YoungJun Park		Introducing netpoll UDP send kfunc for BPF LSMs
- Song Liu, Mahe Tardy, Liam Wisehart
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15:30[Venice, FS]

xfs update		NVMe Stretched/Dispersed Subsystems II

Randy Jennings		[Emerald, MM]

Swap_ops and pluggable back end

Chris Li		Extending BPF LSMs
- Christian Brauner
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16:00Break: Pre-function
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16:30
VFS BoF

Christian Brauner

[Owl needed]		NVMe over MPTCP

Geliang Tang
Percpu Memory Allocator

Harry (Hyeonggon) Yoo

[Owl for Mathieu Desnoyers]		Resolution on BPF signing and trusted BPF verification
- KP Singh
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17:00
VFS BoF

Christian Brauner

[Owl needed]		NVMe Boot over TCP (Timberland)

John Meneghini
What's brewing in CXL?

Dan Williams		Allowing RCU callbacks to look at expedited grace periods to get out of an OOM situation
- Puranjay Mohan
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17:30[Emerald, FS+BPF] Refactor LSM hooks for VFS mount operations
- Song Liu
[Owl needed]		NVMe Fabrics at Scale II

Daniel Wagner		Towards Unified and Extensible Memory Reclaim (reclaim_ext)

Shakeel Butt		[Emerald, FS+BPF] Refactor LSM hooks for VFS mount operations
- Song Liu
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18:00BoF sessions
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18:30Evening Event
Pivnica Medvedgrad Ilica
(Ilica 49, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia)
Transportation provided
Departures from Esplanade Zagreb Hotel: 18:35, 18:45, 18:55
Return departures: 20:00, 20:15, 20:30, 20:45
Times are subject to change.
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Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
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06:45Running BOF (Hotel Lobby) - Matthew Wilcox
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08:30Registration: Pre-function
Continental Breakfast: Pre-function; seating in Emerald Ballroom

If you’ve booked within the conference room block at the Esplanade Zagreb Hotel, your room rate includes a full buffet breakfast.
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09:00BoF: mm-next process
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09:30[Emerald, plenary]

AI patch review and more

Chris Mason
Josef Bacik
Sasha Levin
Roman Gushchin		[Emerald, plenary]
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10:00[Emerald, FS+IO]

FS perf regressions

Hans Holmberg
Josef Bacik		Private Memory Nodes

Gregory Price		BPF deferred stack trace unwinder
- Steven Rostedt
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10:30Compile-Time Verification

Bart Van Assche
Optimising major page faults

Barry Song		BPF multi-tracing attachment
- Jiri Olsa
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11:00Break: Pre-function
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11:30
FS testing

Theodore Ts'o		NVMe Adaptive I/O Policy

Nilay Shroff		Custom Page Cache Eviction with eBPF

Tal Zussman		netkit updates & BPF for user space patching
- Daniel Borkmann
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12:00[Emerald, plenary]

AI patch review and more

Chris Mason
Josef Bacik
Sasha Levin
Roman Gushchin		Improving MGLRU

Kairui Song		Inline support for BTF
- Alan Maguire
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12:30blktests CI

Shin'ichiro Kawasaki		MGLRU on Android

Zicheng Wang		BPF local storage for every packet (https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ecmffopy.fsf@cloudflare.com/)
- Jakub Sitnicki
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13:00Lunch in Zinfandel's Restaurant at the Esplanade Zagreb Hotel
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14:30[Emerald, FS+IO]

Parallel Writeback
Anuj Gupta
Kundan Kumar		this_cpu_ops
[Istanbul]
Yang Shi		Libraries of BPF programs
- Song Liu
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15:00[Venice - FS]

Famfs and DAX iomap
John Groves
[Owl needed - Venice]		 [Emerald]

NVMe Monitor

Nilay Shroff 		Tier-aware memcg limits
[Istanbul]
Joshua Hahn		Efficient cross-namespace BPF socket iteration for socket destruction - leading discussion
- Jordan Rife
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15:30Where is fuse going? API cleanup, restructuring and more

Miklos Szeredi
[Owl needed - Venice]		[Emerald]

Replication / BRMR

Haris Iqbal, Jia Li		Auto THP
[Istanbul]
Nico Pache		Introducing backpressure support for BPF sockmap
- Hemanth Malla
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16:00Break: Pre-function
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16:30FUSE BoF

Miklos Szeredi
[Owl needed - Venice]
Removing Page Mapcount

David Hildenbrand
[Istanbul]		Thoughts on Safety
- Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
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17:00Separating Memdescs from Pages

Vishal Moola
[Istanbul]		Update on BPF CI changes over the past year + developer feedback
- Ihor Solodrai
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17:30Deferred folio spltting

David Hildenbrand
[Istanbul]		[Owl needed] BPF in Stable Kernels, an update
- Shung-Hsi Yu
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18:00Conference wrap up
Meeting Room: Emerald Ballroom
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18:30Dinner - On Own
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