Prominent features in Linux 3.5 (Linux 内核3.5显著特性)
Linux 3.5 has been released on 21 Jul 2012.
Summary: This release includes support for metadata checksums in ext4, userspace probes for performance profiling with tools like Systemtap or perf, a sandboxing mechanism that allows to filters syscalls, a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), support for Android-style opportunistic suspend, btrfs I/O failure statistics, and SCSI over Firewire and USB. Many small features and new drivers and fixes are also available.
- Prominent features in Linux 3.5
- ext4 metadata checksums (ext4元数据校验和)
- Uprobes: userspace probes (用户控件探测器)
- Seccomp-based system call filtering (系统调用过滤)
- Bufferbloat fighting: CoDel queue management (队列管理)
- TCP connection repair (TCP链接修复)
- TCP Early Retransmit
- Android-style opportunistic suspend (自动挂起)
- Btrfs: I/O failure statistics, latency improvements
- SCSI over FireWire and USB (通过FireWire 和USB的SCSI)
- Driver and architecture-specific changes
- Various core changes
- Memory Management
- Block
- Perf/tracing
- Virtualization
- Security
- Networking
- File systems
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