Linux 3.11 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED

Summary: This release adds support for , new drivers and many small improvements.

TableOfContents()

1. Prominent features

2. Drivers and architectures

All the driver and architecture-specific changes can be found in the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.11-DriversArch Linux_3.11-DriversArch page]

3. Core

locking

• RCU: Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU [http://git.kernel.org/linus/127781d1ba1ee5bbe1780afa35dd0e71583b143d (commit)]

4. Memory management

Memory control group

5. Block layer

• bcache: Raid 5/6 optimizations [http://git.kernel.org/linus/72c270612bd33192fa836ad0f2939af1ca218292 (commit)]

• blkio cgroup controller: implement proper hierarchy support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/9138125beabbb76b4a373d4a619870f6f5d86fc5 (commit)]

• Add AIX partition table support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6 (commit)]

6. File systems

EXT4

• Make punch hole work with bigalloc [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d23142c6271c499d913d0d5e668b5a4eb6dafcb0 (commit)]

• ext4_writepages() is now used for nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode. This allows writes to be submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer [http://git.kernel.org/linus/20970ba65d5a22f2e4efbfa100377722fde56935 (commit)]

• The extent cache shrink mechanism, which was introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the i_es_lru spinlock [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d3922a777f9b4c4df898d326fa940f239af4f9b6 (commit)]

Btrfs

• Show compiled-in config features at module load time [http://git.kernel.org/linus/85965600f50b2e57746363d0ace4ab6b2bcb9c27 (commit)]

• Remove btrfs_sector_sum structure, it improved the performance in a dd benchmark by ~74% on a SSD (31MB/s -> 54MB/s) [http://git.kernel.org/linus/f51a4a1826ff810eb9c00cadff8978b028c40756 (commit)]

F2FS

• Add remount support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/696c018c7718f5e33e1107da19c4d64a25018878 (commit)]

• Support xattr security labels [http://git.kernel.org/linus/8ae8f1627f39bae505b90cade50cd8a911b8bda6 (commit)]

GFS2

• Add atomic open support whose main benefit will be the reduction in locking overhead in case of combined lookup/create and open operations[http://git.kernel.org/linus/6d4ade986f9c8df31e68fd30643997f79cc5a5f8 (commit)]

CIFS

• SMB3 Signing enablement [http://git.kernel.org/linus/429b46f4fdaf9c9007b7c0fc371b94e40c3764b2 (commit)]

• Handle big endianness in NTLM (ntlmv2) authentication [http://git.kernel.org/linus/fdf96a907c1fbb93c633e2b7ede3b8df26d6a4c0 (commit)]

• Add a "nosharesock" mount option to force new sockets to server to be created [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a0b3df5cf1fc46ad885bbc5c9f56ff0f4877beb5 (commit)]

HPFS

• Implement prefetch to improve performance [http://git.kernel.org/linus/275f495dbe34300d793466a7d96c70f83fbae1bc (commit)]

FAT

• Add FAT_IOCTL_GET_VOLUME_ID [http://git.kernel.org/linus/6e5b93ee55d401f1619092fb675b57c28c9ed7ec (commit)]

NILFS2

• Implement calculation of free inodes count [http://git.kernel.org/linus/c7ef972c440fc9f1eda28b450cd30ad15c4d60cf (commit)]

7. Networking

• UDP: add low latency socket poll support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a5b50476f77a8fcc8055c955720d05a7c2d9c532 (commit)]

• TCP: add low latency socket poll support. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d30e383bb856f614ddb5bbbb5a7d3f86240e41ec (commit)]

• sit: add IPv4 over IPv4 support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/32b8a8e59c9c8fa56051d6e9ab2924e469ac4d92 (commit)]

• 9p: Make 9P2000.L the default protocol for 9p file system [http://git.kernel.org/linus/095e7999c09afa09345db864427cb4bb4c98ae1c (commit)]

• 9p: add privport option to 9p tcp transport [http://git.kernel.org/linus/2f28c8b31dc501027d9aa6acf496c5941736312b (commit)]

• Add VF link state control [http://git.kernel.org/linus/1d8faf48c74b8329a0322dc4b2a2030ae5003c86 (commit)]

• add low latency socket poll [http://git.kernel.org/linus/060212928670593fb89243640bf05cf89560b023 (commit)]

• add socket option for low latency polling [http://git.kernel.org/linus/dafcc4380deec21d160c31411f33c8813f67f517 (commit)]

• ipv6: add support of peer address [http://git.kernel.org/linus/caeaba79009c2ee858c3b2bf8caf922cd719fead (commit)]

• mac80211: add support for per-chain signal strength reporting [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ef0621e805f9ef76eaf31ce6205028fe467e9ca9 (commit)]

• mac80211: enable Auth Protocol Identifier on mesh config. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0d4261ad5d0028b26cd88e645b4507eed8aab3f7 (commit)]

• gso: Update tunnel segmentation to support Tx checksum offload [http://git.kernel.org/linus/cdbaa0bb26d8116d00be24e6b49043777b382f3a (commit)]

• Implement /proc/net/icmp6. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/d862e546142328d18377a4704be97f2ae301847a (commit)]

• bridge: Add a flag to control unicast packet flood. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/867a59436fc35593ae0e0efcd56cc6d2f8506586 (commit)]

• netfilter: Implement RFC 1123 for FTP conntrack [http://git.kernel.org/linus/4e7dba99c9e606e304f104ce4071d8b5ba93957e (commit)]

• nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211 [http://git.kernel.org/linus/fb4e156886ce6e8309e912d8b370d192330d19d3 (commit)]

• openvswitch: Add gre tunnel support. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/aa310701e787087dbfbccf1409982a96e16c57a6 (commit)]

• openvswitch: Add tunneling interface. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/7d5437c709ded4f152cb8b305d17972d6707f20c (commit)]

• packet: nlmon: virtual netlink monitoring device for packet sockets [http://git.kernel.org/linus/e4fc408e0e99fd2e009c8b3702d9637f5554fd5c (commit)]

• xfrm: add LINUX_MIB_XFRMACQUIREERROR statistic counter [http://git.kernel.org/linus/4c4d41f200db375b2d2cc6d0a1de0606c8266398 (commit)]

• RDMA

  • cma: Define native IB address [http://git.kernel.org/linus/8d36eb01da5d371feffa280e501377b5c450f5a5 (commit)]

  • ucma: Allow user space to bind to AF_IB [http://git.kernel.org/linus/eebe4c3a62aadb64ba30bde97b96d656e369d934 (commit)]

  • ucma: Allow user space to pass AF_IB into resolve [http://git.kernel.org/linus/209cf2a751f9ff2a516102339e54fcac0176fa78 (commit)]

  • ucma: Allow user space to specify AF_IB when joining multicast [http://git.kernel.org/linus/5bc2b7b397b02026a0596a7807443a18422733fa (commit)]

  • ucma: Support querying for AF_IB addresses [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ee7aed4528fb3c44a36abd79eb23fd5401a5b697 (commit)]

• NFC

  • Add NCI over SPI receive [http://git.kernel.org/linus/391d8a2da787257aeaf952c974405b53926e3fb3 (commit)]

  • Add NCI over SPI send [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ee9596d467e4d05c77a8c883aeeb5b74d1a3cd31 (commit)]

  • Add a nfc hardware simulation driver [http://git.kernel.org/linus/7cbe0ff3e475b7268ad9b55057048b2299fd60e0 (commit)]

  • Add basic NCI over SPI [http://git.kernel.org/linus/8a00a61b0ef2bfd1b468dd20c0d0b1a94a8f7475 (commit)]

  • Add firmware upload netlink command [http://git.kernel.org/linus/9674da8759df0d6c0d24e1ede6e2a1acdef91e3c (commit)]

• MPLS: Add limited GSO support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0d89d2035fe063461a5ddb609b2c12e7fb006e44 (commit)]

8. Crypto

• sha256_ssse3: add sha224 support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/a710f761fc9ae5728765a5917f8beabb49f98483 (commit)]

• sha512_ssse3: add sha384 support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/340991e30ccef7b983cf2814ecea610504f5d059 (commit)]

• Add lz4 Cryptographic API [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0ea8530dcf762526459b29ac713a623b51fd691f (commit)]

• crct10dif: Accelerated CRC T10 DIF computation with PCLMULQDQ instruction [http://git.kernel.org/linus/31d939625a9a20b1badd2d4e6bf6fd39fa523405 (commit)], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/0b95a7f85718adcbba36407ef88bba0a7379ed03 (commit)]

• dcp: support for Freescale's DCP co-processor [http://git.kernel.org/linus/519d8b1a9d81be7e4ffad8aa6b0e3ea03984bb86 (commit)]

9. Virtualization

KVM

virtio

hv

• vmbus: Implement multi-channel support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/e68d2971d26577b932a16333ce165af98a96e068 (commit)]

10. Security

Smack

• Local IPv6 port based controls [http://git.kernel.org/linus/c673944347edfd4362b10eea11ac384a582b1cf5 (commit)]

• Add smkfstransmute mount option. It complements the smkfsroot option but also marks the root inode as transmutting [http://git.kernel.org/linus/e830b39412ca2bbedd7508243f21c04d57ad543c (commit)]

Apparmor

• Remove "permipc" command [http://git.kernel.org/linus/4b7c331fc2eceaa4da5ded41c0b2eca3fd924444 (commit)]

11. Tracing/perf

perf

• Add --percent-limit option in perf report and perf top for not showing small overhead entries in the output; also, a report.percent-limit config variable [http://git.kernel.org/linus/064f19815c4e99e8b22bc3c5f4d7f4e0b96d226a (commit)], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/fa5df94350510571cbe825f333996f57223b3cd2 (commit)], [http://git.kernel.org/linus/eec574e6bc3ee4558d4a282e0e3e1bd6dd0ad67b (commit)]

• Add sysfs entry /sys/device/xxx/perf_event_mux_interval_ms to ajust the multiplexing interval per PMU. The unit is milliseconds [http://git.kernel.org/linus/62b8563979273424d6ebe9201e34d1acc133ad4f (commit)]

• perf record: Remove -A/--append option, it's no longer working and needed [http://git.kernel.org/linus/563aecb2e63a16f86c7daabfdcfee23f3e7c5955 (commit)]

12. Other news sites that track the changes of this release

• LWN: [https://lwn.net/Articles/557314/ The 3.11 merge window opens], [https://lwn.net/Articles/558126/ 3.11 merge window part 2], [https://lwn.net/Articles/558940/ The 3.11 merge window closes]

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