Linux Kernel Upstream Release Notes

Changes and New Features


Upstream Kernel 6.16

Internal Ref.

Feature

Description

Support Added in User Space Version

Support Added in Firmware Version

Security

4089001

Support ipsec over Bonding Active-passive.

[N/A] Added support for bonding active-passive groups together with multiple network devices into one logical device with increased redundancy.

N/A

N/A

Net Dev

3383458

Hardware-Managed Flow Steering 

[ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for Hardware-Managed Flow Steering (HMFS), which is a new approach for managing steering rules where STEs are written to ICM by hardware (as opposed to software in software-managed steering), which allows higher rate of rule insertion.

N/A

N/A


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