The New Features & Exciting Changes Of The Linux 4.10 Kernel

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 23 December 2016 at 08:30 AM EST. Page 2 of 3. 16 Comments.

Processors:

- More AMD Zen/Ryzen code is being mainlined ahead of these new processors officially debuting in 2017.

- Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 is finally supported for helping boost single-threaded workloads on supported Intel CPUs.

- Early support for NVIDIA's Tegra P1 / Parker.

- New OpenRISC work.

- KVM and Xen changes.


TBM3/ITMT is finally supported on Linux, months after Windows and the hardware's debut.

Storage / Block / File-Systems:

- EXT4 DAX iomap support for those using new persistent memory devices.

- DAX iomap for XFS too, among other fixes and improvements.

- Cleanups and fixes for Btrfs.

- UBIFS file encryption making use of fscrypt that is already used by the native encryption on EXT4 and F2FS.

- MD has a new RAID5 write-back cache feature along with AVX2 RAID optimizations and other work.

- ATA Command Priority support is quite exciting for supported hardware.

- F2FS performance tuning.

- Other block changes.

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