• Linux_2_6_11

2.6.11

• Released March 2, 2005 changelog

• Conversion to 4-level page tables (LWN article) (commit)

• New Pipe implementation (LWN article)

• "Big Kernel Semaphore": Turns the Big Kernel Lock into a semaphore (LWN article) (commit)

• Introduces the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities (commit)

• Simplify readahead code (commit) - (commit)

• Support for Extended Attributes in the body of large inode in ext3: saves space and improves performance in some cases (commit)

• Add /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type (commit)

• Remove bitmaps from the buddy allocator (commit)

• Enhanced I/O and memory accounting (commit) - (commit)

• AMD Dual-core support (commit)

• Add Fujitsu FR-V CPU architecture (commit)

• TCP port randomization (commit)

• SATA support for Intel ICH7

• DebugFS (LWN article)

• Infiniband support (LWN article)

• Remove UMSDOS (commit)

• Major problems with TCP/IP BIC (the default congestion control) are resolved