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2025-11-11: The VIII OSPM Summit website is on-line

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Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel

OSPM Summit - VIII edition

The VIII edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (OSPM) summit aims at fostering discussions on power management and (real-time) scheduling techniques. The summit will be held at Arm in Cambridge (UK) on April 14-16, 2026.

We welcome anybody interested in having discussions on the broad scope of scheduler techniques for reducing energy consumption while meeting performance and latency requirements, real-time systems, real-time and non-real-time scheduling, tooling, debugging and tracing.

Previous editions

Feel free to have a look at what happened in previous years:

• First edition (OSPM I - 2017): https://lwn.net/Articles/721573/
• Second edition (OSPM II - 2018): https://lwn.net/Articles/754923/
• Third edition (OSPM III - 2019): https://lwn.net/Articles/793281/
• Fourth edition (OSPM IV - 2020): https://lwn.net/Articles/820337/
• Fifth edition (OSPM V - 2023): https://lwn.net/Articles/934142/
• Sixth edition (OSPM VI - 2024): https://lwn.net/Articles/981371/
• Seventh edition (OSPM VII - 2025): https://lwn.net/Articles/1020596/

Format

The summit is organized to cover three days of discussions and talks.

The list of topics of interest includes (but it is not limited to):

• Power management techniques
• Scheduling techniques (real-time and non real-time)
• Energy consumption and CPU capacity aware scheduling
• Real-time virtualization
• Mobile/Server power management real-world use cases (successes and failures)
• Power management and scheduling tooling (configuration, integration testing, etc.)
• Tracing
• Recap/lightning talks

Presentations (50 min) can cover recently developed technologies, ongoing work and new ideas. Please understand that this workshop is not intended for presenting sales and marketing pitches.

Submit a topic/presentation

To submit a topic/presentation, use the form available at TODO. Or, if you prefer, simply write an e-mail to Juri Lelli, specifying name/surname, affiliation, short bio, email address, title, abstract.

Important Dates

Deadline for submitting topics/presentations is: TODO.

Notifications for accepted topics/presentations will be sent out on: TODO.

Attending

Attending the OSPM-summit is free of charge, but registration to the event is mandatory. The event can allow a maximum of 50 people (so, be sure to register early!).

Registrations open on TODO. To register fill in the registration form available at TODO.

While it is not strictly required to submit a topic/presentation, registrations with a topic/presentation proposal will take precedence.

Venue

The conference will take place at Arm, Cambridge, UK.

Organizers

• Juri Lelli (Red Hat)
• Dietmar Eggemann (Arm)
• Lorenzo Pieralisi (Linaro)
• Tommaso Cucinotta (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)