- 20161113: IPv6 Segment Routing: a source routing paradigm, architecturally defined in draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing-09
- 20161113: BPF for lightweight tunnel encapsulation: implements BPF program invocation from dst entries via the lightweight tunnels infrastructure. The BPF program can be attached to lwtunnel_input(), lwtunnel_output() or lwtunnel_xmit() and sees an L3 skb as context. input is read-only, output can write, xmit can write, push headers, and redirect.
- iptables 1.6.0 release: this release includes the first official release of the iptables over nftables infrastructure
- kernel, networking: SR-IOV, eBPF, Lightweight tunnels and MPLS, Netfilter, switchdev driver model, ...
- indirect info for: Nftables or Iptables/Ebtables for a simple linux bridge
- NetDev 1.1 videos
- [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add driver bpf hook for early packet drop
- NSH and VxLAN-GPE
- patch set: vxlan: implement Generic Protocol Extension (GPE)
- patch set: mlxsw: Introduce support for Data Center Bridging
- Netfilter patch set for Kernel 4.5: mangling, tracing, ...
- Early packet drop — and more — with BPF
- Namespaces in operation, part 1: namespaces overview
- An introduction to Clear Containers
- Control group namespaces
- Btrfs: Subvolumes and snapshots
- Using the KVM API
- Identifier Locator Addressing
- ipvlan driver
- lwtunnel: per route ipv6 support for vxlan
- openvswitch: Add support for 802.1ad aka: QinQ (kernel 4.3 or 4.4)
- openvswitch: Add support for 802.1AD (QinQ)
- openvswitch: NAT support
- VRF-lite
- L3 master device : aka vrf
- iproute2 4.2.0 (flower classifier, tc_bpf, geneve
- util-linux v2.27
- loop-AES-v3.7e file/swap crypto package
- ipv4: Hash-based multipath routing
- add stealth mode : Add option to disable any reply not related to a listening socket, like RST/ACK for TCP and ICMP Port-Unreachable for UDP
- FPGA Manager Framework
- LTTng modules 2.7.0 : (Linux kernel tracer)
- LTTng-UST 2.7.0 : (Linux user-space tracer)
- perf stat : Add scripting support
- perf tools : filtering events using eBPF programs
- systemtap 2.9 release
- Document tc filters
- Introduce Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs switchdev drivers : some one is working on opening up the api to being able to program l2/l3 switch hardware directly without an nda'd vendor's blob
- rocker switch driver with hardware accelerated datapath
- Public Key Encryption API
- tour of /sys/devices
- A fresh look at the kernel's device model
- Delay-gradient congestion control
- tc, bpf: finalize eBPF support for cls and act front-end
- nftables 0.5 release
Random notes:
If you create a container, run it for a while (ideally exercising every feature in the software you installed), and then look at what files have an atime newer then when you started up the container, you would find that the vast majority of the files on the system were never accessed.