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Chapter 42. Kernel
Heterogeneous memory management included as a Technology Preview
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 offers the heterogeneous memory management (HMM) feature as a Technology Preview. This feature has been added to the kernel as a helper layer for devices that want to mirror a process address space into their own memory management unit (MMU). Thus a non-CPU device processor is able to read system memory using the unified system address space. To enable this feature, add
experimental_hmm=enable
to the kernel command line. (BZ#1230959)
User namespace
This feature provides additional security to servers running Linux containers by providing better isolation between the host and the containers. Administrators of a container are no longer able to perform administrative operations on the host, which increases security. (BZ#1138782)
libocrdma RoCE support on Oce141xx cards
As a Technology Preview, the
ocrdma
module and the libocrdma package support the Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) functionality on all network adapters in the Oce141xx family. (BZ#1334675)
No-IOMMU mode for VFIO drivers
As a Technology Preview, this update adds No-IOMMU mode for virtual function I/O (VFIO) drivers. The No-IOMMU mode provides the user with full user-space I/O (UIO) access to a direct memory access (DMA)-capable device without a I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). Note that in addition to not being supported, using this mode is not secure due to the lack of I/O management provided by IOMMU. (BZ#1299662)
criu rebased to version 2.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 introduced the
criu
tool as a Technology Preview. This tool implements Checkpoint/Restore in User-space (CRIU)
, which can be used to freeze a running application and store it as a collection of files. Later, the application can be restored from its frozen state.
Note that the
criu
tool depends on Protocol Buffers
, a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. The protobuf and protobuf-c packages, which provide this dependency, were also introduced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 as a Technology Preview.
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, the criu packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.3, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. Notably,
criu
is now available also on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for POWER, little endian.
Additionally,
criu
can now be used for following applications running in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 runc
container:
- vsftpd
- apache httpd
- sendmail
- postgresql
- mongodb
- mariadb
- mysql
- tomcat
- dnsmasq (BZ#1296578)
The ibmvnic
Device Driver has been added
The
ibmvnic
Device Driver has been introduced as a Technology Preview in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 for IBM POWER architectures. vNIC (Virtual Network Interface Controller) is a new PowerVM virtual networking technology that delivers enterprise capabilities and simplifies network management. It is a high-performance, efficient technology that when combined with SR-IOV NIC provides bandwidth control Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities at the virtual NIC level. vNIC significantly reduces virtualization overhead, resulting in lower latencies and fewer server resources, including CPU and memory, required for network virtualization. (BZ#947163)
Kexec as a Technology Preview
The
kexec
system call has been provided as a Technology Preview. This system call enables loading and booting into another kernel from the currently running kernel, thus performing the function of the boot loader from within the kernel. Hardware initialization, which is normally done during a standard system boot, is not performed during a kexec
boot, which significantly reduces the time required for a reboot. (BZ#1460849)