What's up in Linux-Kernel land
summary
Linux 5.0 lands as an ordinary release after ~13,500 commits per cycle and ~300,000 added lines, with work addressing Spectre v2 regressions that first degrade then restore performance, and several real changes already merged: WireGuard VPN awaits crypto API reconciliation, nftables quietly replaces iptables in distros, eBPF and XDP drive zero copy AF_XDP networking and in-kernel programmability, blk-mq removes CFQ/deadline schedulers for better NVMe scaling, HMM exports move to GPL-only and psi adds fine‑grained stall diagnostics.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 7:41Heterogeneous Memory Management
- 9:48Block Corruption
- 14:00Linus Break and the Code of Conduct
- 22:58Networking
- 31:59Plumbers Conference
