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@grahamperrin said:

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(06/15)

⇒ Linux 7.2 To Better Communicate File-System Casefolding For Helping Windows NFS & More

Newly-merged code for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel will now expose the case-folding (case insensitive) behavior of local file-systems so that Linux file servers and others can properly report the actual behavior rather than guessing if case-folding is actually used/supported.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Casefolding

⇒ Linux 7.2 Introducing The Rust Zerocopy Library To Eliminate More "Unsafe" Code

Miguel Ojeda already mailed in the many Rust code changes for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. This is quite a big Rust code with more than forty thousand new lines of Rust code in the kernel.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Rust

⇒ Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs

The scheduler updates were merged this morning for the Linux 7.2 kernel and it's exciting. Cache Aware Scheduling has finally been merged! This is a win for especially modern Intel and AMD processors with multiple last level caches (LLCs).

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Scheduler

(06/12)

⇒ syslogd(8) privileged and non-privileged parts now separate binaries

In OpenBSD, the syslogd(8) system logger has already for a while now fork(2)ed the privileged from the non-privileged parts.

• https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260612080210

(06/10)

⇒ Linux 7.2 To Enable ESWIN SoC Support By Default For RISC-V Kernel Builds

An important one-liner is set to come for Linux 7.2 to enable ESWIN SoC support by default for RISC-V kernel builds. This change will allow default RISC-V kernel builds in turn to boot on the likes of SiFive's HiFive Premier P550 developer board.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-ESWIN-Default

(06/09)

⇒ AMD Support Being Added To UFS Host Controller PCI Driver In Linux 7.2

Linux's ufshcd-pci as the Universal Flash Storage host controller PCI driver has supported a variety of Intel devices to this point while for Linux 7.2 the first AMD device is set to be added.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ufshcd-pci-Linux-7.2

⇒ Linux 7.2 Preparing Intel Key Protection Technology "KPT" For Next-Gen QAT

Going back to the launch of 1st Gen Xeon Scalable processors in 2017 was Intel Key Protection Technology (KPT) promoted and there have been Key Protection Technology references in QuickAssist (QAT) documentation since 2016. Surprisingly we are only now seeing Key Protection Technology references for the upstream Linux QAT driver as Intel engineers prepare for their next-gen "Gen6" QuickAssist hardware support.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-KPT-For-QAT-Gen6

(06/08)

⇒ Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA

Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/ACPI-CPPC-v4-Linux-7.2

That’s an interesting idea, though I’m not sure if it’s relevant.

The question I’m asking myself is: why is it problematic to use the expire option, which is designed for this very purpose? because sysadmins forget to configure it, which causes the relevant tables to grow?!

I think this is more relevant:

The "feature request" wish I have is to be able to backup/restore tables
preserving the counters and timestamp for each entry.

Currently I do a "pfctl -T show" and save to file on server shutdown.
Then I do a "pfctl -T add" from filename to reload table on boot.
Obviously this resets all the timestamps to the current boot time.
I know, don't reboot.

seen on: - https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260513064948

This seems me a good idea: save with good informations when rebooting is needed, as instance a "new" rebuilded kernel