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Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
| Time |
Event |
| 2:27p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (eject, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, gst-plugins-ugly1.0, gstreamer1.0, php5, and tiff), Fedora (kernel), Gentoo (curl, deluge, libtasn1, and xen-tools), Mageia (mbedtls, putty, and roundcubemail), openSUSE (dbus-1, gegl, mxml, open-vm-tools, partclone, qbittorrent, tcpreplay, and xtrabackup), and Ubuntu (eject, gst-plugins-base0.10, gst-plugins-base1.0, and gst-plugins-good0.10, gst-plugins-good1.0). | | 3:38p |
[$] Huge pages in the ext4 filesystem When the transparent huge page feature was added to the kernel, it only supported anonymous (non-file-backed) memory. In 2016, support for huge pages in the page cache was added, but only the tmpfs filesystem was supported. There is interest in expanding support to other filesystems, since, for some workloads, the performance improvement can be significant. Kirill Shutemov led the only session that combined just the filesystem and memory-management tracks at the 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit in a discussion of adding huge-page support to the ext4 filesystem. | | 6:17p |
Google's new open-source site Google has announced
the launch of opensource.google.com. " Today, we’re launching opensource.google.com, a new website for Google Open Source that ties together all of our initiatives with information on how we use, release, and support open source.
This new site showcases the breadth and depth of our love for open source. It will contain the expected things: our programs, organizations we support, and a comprehensive list of open source projects we've released. But it also contains something unexpected: a look under the hood at how we "do" open source."
| | 7:53p |
Kubernetes 1.6 released Version
1.6 of the Kubernetes orchestration system is available. " In
this release the community’s focus is on scale and automation, to help you
deploy multiple workloads to multiple users on a cluster. We are announcing
that 5,000 node clusters are supported. We moved dynamic storage
provisioning to stable. Role-based access control (RBAC), kubefed, kubeadm,
and several scheduling features are moving to beta. We have also added
intelligent defaults throughout to enable greater automation out of the
box."
| | 7:57p |
[$] Supporting shared TLB contexts
A processor's translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches the mappings from
virtual to physical addresses. Looking up virtual addresses is expensive,
so good performance often depends on making the best use of the TLB. In
the memory-management track of the 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and
Memory-Management Summit, Mike Kravetz described a SPARC processor feature
that can improve TLB performance and explored ways in which that feature
could be supported. |
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