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Summary: This release includes some Ext4 performance improvements; XFS support for large atomic writes; support for USB audio offload; support for zero-copy send TCP payloads from DMABUF memory; various futex improvements; initial support for Intel Trusted Domain Extensions; automatic weighted interleaved memory allocation policy; support for sending coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket, and make easier to build your kernel optimized for your local CPU. As always, there are many other features, new drivers, improvements and fixes. Also, you might be interested in the LWN merge window report: part 1, part 2
Contents Prominent features XFS support for large atomic writes USB audio offload support Initial support for Intel Trusted Domain Extensions Allow to zero-copy send TCP payloads from DMABUF memory Automatic weighted interleaved memory allocation policy Support for Intel Advanced Performance Extensions Add support for sending coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket Futex improvements Some Ext4 performance improvements Build optimization for the local CPU on x86 Core (various) File systems Memory management Block layer Tracing, perf and BPF Virtualization Cryptography Security Networking Architectures Drivers Graphics Power Management Storage Drivers in the Staging area Networking Audio Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses TV tuners, webcams, video capturers Universal Serial Bus Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Watchdog CPU Frequency scaling Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply Real Time Clock (RTC) Pin Controllers (pinctrl) Multi Media Card (MMC) Memory Technology Devices (MTD) Industrial I/O (iio) Multi Function Devices (MFD) Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C) Hardware monitoring (hwmon) General Purpose I/O (gpio) Leds DMA engines Hardware Random Number Generator (hwrng) Cryptography hardware acceleration PCI Thunderbolt Clock PHY ("physical layer" framework) EDAC (Error Detection And Correction) Various List of Pull Requests Other news sites 1. Prominent features
