Open source?s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the Linux 4.10 kernel series, which includes virtual GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) support.
Linus wrote in the announcement, adding "On the whole, 4.10 didn't end up as small as it initially looked".
The kernel has a lot of improvements, security features, and support for the newest hardware components which makes it more than just a normal update.
Most importantly there is support for virtual GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) support, new "perf c2c" tool that can be used for analysis of cacheline contention on NUMA systems, support for the L2/L3 caches of Intel processors (Intel Cache Allocation Technology), eBPF hooks for cgroups, hybrid block polling, and better writeback management.
A new "perf sched timehist" feature has been added in Linux kernel 4.10 to provide detailed history of task scheduling, and there's experimental writeback cache and FAILFAST support for MD RAID5...
It looks like Ubuntu 17.04 will be the first stable OS to ship with Linux 4.10.
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