The latest version of the Linux kernel has some very cool features, 2.6.24 includes CPU "group scheduling", memory fragmentation avoidance, tickless support for x86-64/ppc and other architectures, many new wireless drivers and a new wireless configuration interface, SPI/SDIO MMC support, USB authorization, per-device dirty memory thresholds, support for PID and network namespaces, support for static probe markers, read-only bind mounts, SELinux performance improvements, SATA link power management and port multiplier support, Large Receive Offload in network devices, memory hot-remove support, a new framework for controlling the idle processor power management, CIFS ACLs support, many new drivers and many other features and fixes. Here is a list of some of the cool features of this release.
- CFS improvements
- Tickless support for x86-64, PPC, UML, ARM, MIPS
- New wireless drivers and configuration interface
- Anti-fragmentation patches
- SPI/SDIO support in the MMC layer
- USB authorisation
- Per-device dirty memory threshold
- PID and network namespaces
- Large Receive Offload (LRO) support for TCP traffic
- Task Control Groups
- Linux Kernel markers
- Read-only bind mounts
- x86-32/64 arch reunification
- New drivers
Link:
kernelnewbies.org
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