LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[Christian Brauner]

The annual Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF
(LSF/MM/BPF) Summit for 2026 will be held May 4–6, 2026 in Zagreb,
Croatia.

LSF/MM/BPF is an invitation-only technical workshop to map out
improvements to the Linux storage, filesystem, BPF, and memory
management subsystems that will make their way into the mainline
kernel within the coming years.

LSF/MM/BPF 2026 will be a three-day, stand-alone conference with four
subsystem-specific tracks, cross-track discussions, as well as BoF and
hacking sessions. Please check out:

          https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf/

for further details on the venue and hotels.

This is a call for proposals for technical topics for this year's event.

We are asking that you please let us know you want to be invited by
February 20, 2026. We realize that travel is an ever-changing target,
but it helps us to get an idea of possible attendance numbers.

(1) Fill out the following Google form to request attendance and
    suggest any topics for discussion:

          https://forms.gle/hUgiEksr8CA1migCA

    If advance notice is required for visa applications, please point
    that out in your proposal or request to attend, and submit the topic
    as soon as possible.

(2) Please send topics to

          lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org

    and to the relevant technical audience:

          FS:     linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
          MM:     linux-mm@kvack.org
          Block:  linux-block@vger.kernel.org
          ATA:    linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
          SCSI:   linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
          NVMe:   linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
          BPF:    bpf@vger.kernel.org

(3) Please tag your proposal with [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] and ensure that
    each topic is a separate thread.

(4) The Google form has an area for people to add required/optional
    attendees. Please encourage new members of the community to submit a
    request for an invite as well. Maintainers or long-term community
    members can add nominees to the form to help make sure that new
    members get the proper consideration.

(5) For discussion leaders, slides and visualizations are encouraged to
    outline the subject matter and focus the discussions. Please refrain
    from lengthy presentations and talks in order for sessions to be
    productive; the sessions are supposed to be interactive, inclusive
    discussions.

LWN has covered previous iterations of LSF/MM/BPF extensively:

          2014: https://lwn.net/Articles/LSFMM2014/
          2015: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2015/
          2016: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2016/
          2017: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2017/
          2018: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2018/
          2019: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2019/
          2020: 404 - Cancelled by The Plague
          2021: 404 - Cancelled by The Plague
          2022: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2022/
          2023: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmmbpf2023/
          2024: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmmbpf2024/
          2025: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmmbpf2025/

The program committee for this year consists of:

          Javier González    (Storage)
          Martin K. Petersen (Storage)
          Christian Brauner  (Filesystems)
          Amir Goldstein     (Filesystems)
          Jan Kara           (Filesystems)
          Vlastimil Babka    (MM)
          Matthew Wilcox     (MM)
          Daniel Borkmann    (BPF)
          Martin KaFai Lau   (BPF)

Thank you,
Christian Brauner

Re: LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[Christian Brauner]

> (1) Fill out the following Google form to request attendance and
>     suggest any topics for discussion:
> 
>           https://forms.gle/hUgiEksr8CA1migCA
> 
>     If advance notice is required for visa applications, please point
>     that out in your proposal or request to attend, and submit the topic
>     as soon as possible.

Hey everyone,

This is a reminder to put in your invitation request for LSF/MM/BPF 2026!

The sooner you do this the easier it is for us to plan and the less time
we have to spend hunting down missing attendees just weeks prior to the
event. Unless you're really hankering for the special-snowflake
experience please do your part and get in your invitation request.

Please also don't forget to pester^wask^wremind your respective
organizations to consider sponsoring LSF/MM/BPF 2026.

Thanks!
Christian

Re: LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 02:24:17PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The annual Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF
> (LSF/MM/BPF) Summit for 2026 will be held May 4–6, 2026 in Zagreb,
> Croatia.
> 
> LSF/MM/BPF is an invitation-only technical workshop to map out
> improvements to the Linux storage, filesystem, BPF, and memory
> management subsystems that will make their way into the mainline
> kernel within the coming years.
> 
> LSF/MM/BPF 2026 will be a three-day, stand-alone conference with four
> subsystem-specific tracks, cross-track discussions, as well as BoF and
> hacking sessions.

Will there be an option for remote participation this year?

Re: LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 03:22:09AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 02:24:17PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > The annual Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF
> > (LSF/MM/BPF) Summit for 2026 will be held May 4–6, 2026 in Zagreb,
> > Croatia.
> > 
> > LSF/MM/BPF is an invitation-only technical workshop to map out
> > improvements to the Linux storage, filesystem, BPF, and memory
> > management subsystems that will make their way into the mainline
> > kernel within the coming years.
> > 
> > LSF/MM/BPF 2026 will be a three-day, stand-alone conference with four
> > subsystem-specific tracks, cross-track discussions, as well as BoF and
> > hacking sessions.
> 
> Will there be an option for remote participation this year?

I did already have you in mind as a remote attendee and we will have a
solution for such cases. But we do not provide a general first-class
"virtual experience" as some tracks do not even want any remote
attendeeds.

TL;DR you're good.

Re: LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 03:26:39PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > (1) Fill out the following Google form to request attendance and
> >     suggest any topics for discussion:
> > 
> >           https://forms.gle/hUgiEksr8CA1migCA
> > 
> >     If advance notice is required for visa applications, please point
> >     that out in your proposal or request to attend, and submit the topic
> >     as soon as possible.

This is another reminder to put in your invitation request!

What are you waiting for? The weather in Croatia in May is nice. What
could be better than soaking up some sun through the meeting room window
while someone's asking you to make your locking more complicated, grow
your data structure by just a few bytes, or to add some more spaghetti
to that code?

Please also don't forget to pester^wask^wremind your respective
organizations to sponsor LSF/MM/BPF 2026! Bring it up as much as you
bring up that patch on-list that didn't get accepted but would've made
everything so much better.

Thanks!
Christian

Re: LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 05:13:52PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 03:26:39PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > (1) Fill out the following Google form to request attendance and
> > >     suggest any topics for discussion:
> > > 
> > >           https://forms.gle/hUgiEksr8CA1migCA
> > > 
> > >     If advance notice is required for visa applications, please point
> > >     that out in your proposal or request to attend, and submit the topic
> > >     as soon as possible.

This is (likely) the final reminder to put in your invitation request!
The invitation request form closes this Friday, 20th February.

Fever has struck me down so all you get is a bad limerick:

There's a conference called LSFMM,
Where maintainers debate and condemn,
They argue till dawn
What's merged or withdrawn,
Then next year do it over again!

Don't forget to pester^wask^wremind your respective organizations to
sponsor LSF/MM/BPF 2026! If it helps, you can tell them that we're
considering renaming it LSF/MM/BPF/AI.

Thanks!
Christian

Re: LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[Haris Iqbal]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 05:13:52PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 03:26:39PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > > (1) Fill out the following Google form to request attendance and
> > > >     suggest any topics for discussion:
> > > >
> > > >           https://forms.gle/hUgiEksr8CA1migCA
> > > >
> > > >     If advance notice is required for visa applications, please point
> > > >     that out in your proposal or request to attend, and submit the topic
> > > >     as soon as possible.
>
> This is (likely) the final reminder to put in your invitation request!
> The invitation request form closes this Friday, 20th February.

Hello,

What is the announcement date for accepted topics and invitations?

>
> Fever has struck me down so all you get is a bad limerick:
>
> There's a conference called LSFMM,
> Where maintainers debate and condemn,
> They argue till dawn
> What's merged or withdrawn,
> Then next year do it over again!
>
> Don't forget to pester^wask^wremind your respective organizations to
> sponsor LSF/MM/BPF 2026! If it helps, you can tell them that we're
> considering renaming it LSF/MM/BPF/AI.
>
> Thanks!
> Christian
>

Re: LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 11:37:19AM +0100, Haris Iqbal wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 05:13:52PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 03:26:39PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > > > (1) Fill out the following Google form to request attendance and
> > > > >     suggest any topics for discussion:
> > > > >
> > > > >           https://forms.gle/hUgiEksr8CA1migCA
> > > > >
> > > > >     If advance notice is required for visa applications, please point
> > > > >     that out in your proposal or request to attend, and submit the topic
> > > > >     as soon as possible.
> >
> > This is (likely) the final reminder to put in your invitation request!
> > The invitation request form closes this Friday, 20th February.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> What is the announcement date for accepted topics and invitations?

We will very likely aim to get the initial batch of invitations out the
middle or end of February.