#pragma section-numbers on #pragma keywords Linux, kernel, operating system, changes, changelog, file system, Linus Torvalds, open source, device drivers #pragma description Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.11 development cycle Linux 3.11 /!\ /!\ /!\ HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED /!\ /!\ /!\ '''Summary''': This release adds support for , new drivers and many small improvements. [[TableOfContents()]] = Prominent features = = 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] = Core = '' locking '' = Memory management = '' Memory control group '' = 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)] = 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)] = 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)] = 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)] = Virtualization = '' KVM '' '' virtio '' '' hv '' * vmbus: Implement multi-channel support [http://git.kernel.org/linus/e68d2971d26577b932a16333ce165af98a96e068 (commit)] = Security = = Tracing/perf = '' perf '' = 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] ---- CategoryReleases