The 2.6.6 kernel is out [LWN.net]

Linus has announced the availability of the 2.6.6 kernel. Changes since the last prepatch include an NTFS update, an XFS update, some small virtual memory patches, an ACPI update, various architecture updates, and lots of fixes. The list of changes since 2.6.5 is much more extensive, including POSIX message queues, significant ext2 and ext3 filesystem performance improvements, the "laptop mode" patch, 4KB stacks for the i386 architecture, non-executable stack support for several architectures, a big reiserfs update, the lightweight auditing framework, the "completely fair queueing" I/O scheduler, TCP "Vegas" congestion avoidance, and much more. The long-format changelog has the details.

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Multiple congestion control algorithms with increase in TCB size

Posted May 10, 2004 15:06 UTC (Mon) by yusufg (subscriber, #407) [Link]

A few congestion control algorithms in now, Westwood, Vegas and BIC-TCP. Increases the size of the TCP control block. No CONFIG option to disable them. May affect embedded users and possibly people with lots of network connections