The New Features & Exciting Changes Of The Linux 4.10 Kernel
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.
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.