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Special features
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Recent LWN.net kernel pages
The Kernel Page, part of the LWN.net Weekly Edition, provides a
detailed weekly summary of events, releases, and discussions within
the kernel development community. Recent weeks have covered (among
other things):
| Date | Contents |
|---|
| Oct 02, 2013 |
Transactional memory in the dentry cache; How much memory power management is useful?; NUMA scheduling. |
| Sep 25, 2013 |
Split PMD locks; A perf ABI fix. |
| Sep 18, 2013 |
The 3.12 merge window closes; Random number generation; Copy offload with splice(). |
| Sep 11, 2013 |
3.12 merge window, part 2; Security bug handling; BSD-style securelevel. |
| Sep 05, 2013 |
3.12 merge window; Lockrefs; Integrating the ION memory allocator. |
| Aug 28, 2013 |
flink() flunks; TSO sizing and the FQ scheduler; Device namespaces; Cramming more into struct page. |
| Aug 21, 2013 |
Deferring mtime and ctime updates; Some numbers from the 3.11 development cycle; The return of nftables. |
| Aug 14, 2013 |
Pondering 2038; KPortReserve and the multi-LSM problem; Optimizing preemption. |
| Aug 07, 2013 |
A survey of memory management patches; Unreviewed code in 3.11. |
| Jul 31, 2013 |
I/O Hook; Transparent decompression for ext4; Device trees as ABI. |
Recent kernel patches
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