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What Will Be in Linux 2.7?

Posted by michael on from the kitchen-sink dept.

Realistic_Dragon writes "The first discussion has been sighted on the Linux kernel mailing list to put together a feature list of things that should go into Linux 2.7 - including hotplug CPU & Ram support, network transparent sound and improvements to Netfilter to bring it up to the the level of OpenBSD's Packet Filter. And all this before most of us have started to run 2.6.0-preX, or even a 2.6 series stable release happening. Perhaps if you have a (sensible) idea now would be a good time to voice it, otherwise you will have to wait for 2.9 to get it included."

4 of 494 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hotplug CPU and RAM support? by Feztaa · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe they're referring to some mainframes, in which there are bays of CPUs/RAM that can be swapped in and out while the system is running.

    CPU hotplug support is not designed for removing the processor from your single-CPU x86 box.

  2. Two Kernel Monte by strredwolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.scyld.com/products/beowulf/software/mon te.html

    Already there.

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  3. Re:Erm..Userfriendly UI? by Dr.+Zowie · · Score: 4, Informative

    User friendly configuration has been done.

    I'd settle for power management working right.

  4. Re:What I'd like to see... by paulbd · · Score: 4, Informative

    linux doesn't only ship with a timeshare scheduler. it includes both the SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR schedulers, which provide close-to-real-time scheduling capabilities. most pro apps in the audio realm use one or both of these. they can both be used alongside the SCHED_OTHER ("timeshare") scheduler.

    what would be more interesting would be CPU cycle reservation, which is already present in OS X, and would be very useful for any streaming media software.