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Mike Snitzer has prototyped a mechanism for disabling I/O caching in
 NFSD. This is introduced in v6.18 as an experimental feature. This
 enables scaling NFSD in /both/ directions:
 
 - NFS service can be supported on systems with small memory
   footprints, such as low-cost cloud instances
 - Large NFS workloads will be less likely to force the eviction of
   server-local activity, helping it avoid thrashing
 
 Jeff Layton contributed a number of fixes to the new attribute
 delegation implementation (based on a pending Internet RFC) that we
 hope will make attribute delegation reliable enough to enable by
 default, as it is on the Linux NFS client.
 
 The remaining patches in this pull request are clean-ups and minor
 optimizations. Many thanks to the contributors, reviewers, testers,
 and bug reporters who participated during the v6.18 NFSD development
 cycle.
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Merge tag 'nfsd-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux

Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:
 "Mike Snitzer has prototyped a mechanism for disabling I/O caching in
  NFSD. This is introduced in v6.18 as an experimental feature. This
  enables scaling NFSD in /both/ directions:

   - NFS service can be supported on systems with small memory
     footprints, such as low-cost cloud instances

   - Large NFS workloads will be less likely to force the eviction of
     server-local activity, helping it avoid thrashing

  Jeff Layton contributed a number of fixes to the new attribute
  delegation implementation (based on a pending Internet RFC) that we
  hope will make attribute delegation reliable enough to enable by
  default, as it is on the Linux NFS client.

  The remaining patches in this pull request are clean-ups and minor
  optimizations. Many thanks to the contributors, reviewers, testers,
  and bug reporters who participated during the v6.18 NFSD development
  cycle"

* tag 'nfsd-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (42 commits)
  nfsd: discard nfserr_dropit
  SUNRPC: Make RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 select CRYPTO instead of depending on it
  NFSD: Add io_cache_{read,write} controls to debugfs
  NFSD: Do the grace period check in ->proc_layoutget
  nfsd: delete unnecessary NULL check in __fh_verify()
  NFSD: Allow layoutcommit during grace period
  NFSD: Disallow layoutget during grace period
  sunrpc: fix "occurence"->"occurrence"
  nfsd: Don't force CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 to be built-in
  nfsd: nfserr_jukebox in nlm_fopen should lead to a retry
  NFSD: Reduce DRC bucket size
  NFSD: Delay adding new entries to LRU
  SUNRPC: Move the svc_rpcb_cleanup() call sites
  NFS: Remove rpcbind cleanup for NFSv4.0 callback
  nfsd: unregister with rpcbind when deleting a transport
  NFSD: Drop redundant conversion to bool
  sunrpc: eliminate return pointer in svc_tcp_sendmsg()
  sunrpc: fix pr_notice in svc_tcp_sendto() to show correct length
  nfsd: decouple the xprtsec policy check from check_nfsd_access()
  NFSD: Fix destination buffer size in nfsd4_ssc_setup_dul()
  ...
2025-10-06 13:22:21 -07:00
arch Generic: 2025-10-06 12:37:34 -07:00
block Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2025-10-04 14:59:29 -07:00
Documentation Generic: 2025-10-06 12:37:34 -07:00
drivers Generic: 2025-10-06 12:37:34 -07:00
fs NFSD 6.18 Release Notes 2025-10-06 13:22:21 -07:00
include NFSD 6.18 Release Notes 2025-10-06 13:22:21 -07:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel tracing updates for v6.18: 2025-10-05 09:43:36 -07:00
lib integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm Only two patch series in this pull request: 2025-10-05 12:11:07 -07:00
net NFSD 6.18 Release Notes 2025-10-06 13:22:21 -07:00
rust Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
samples Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
scripts It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
security integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
sound platform-drivers-x86 for v6.18-1 2025-10-04 15:28:18 -07:00
tools NFSD 6.18 Release Notes 2025-10-06 13:22:21 -07:00
usr gen_init_cpio: add -a <data_align> as reflink optimization 2025-08-20 16:02:56 -07:00
virt KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only 2025-09-30 13:40:02 -04:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap VFIO updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 08:24:54 -07:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:07:08 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS linux-watchdog 6.18-rc1 tag 2025-10-06 11:00:30 -07:00
Makefile It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.