A lot of things have changed in the Kernel development. This task should summarize the changes and track the progress.
- Update kernel to 5.8.5
- Enable Multi-Path TCP
- Use build in WireGuard
Description
Description
Details
Details
- Difficulty level
- Normal (likely a few hours)
- Version
- -
- Why the issue appeared?
- Will be filled on close
- Is it a breaking change?
- Behavior change
- Issue type
- Package upgrade
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | FEATURE REQUEST | c-po | T2843 Upgrade Linux Kernel to 5.8 series | ||
| Resolved | c-po | T2814 kernel 5.1+ : NAT : module `nft_chain_nat_ipv4` renamed |
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Unfortunately we must revert the Kernel upgrade as there are two problematic issues:
One which is the break of ABI functionality with parted (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.8.y&id=692d062655) and second (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.5.y&id=d63007eb95) which removed required literals for the build of Intel QAT acceleration.
In the two weeks running 5.8 we still learned a lot - we experienced a performance improvement of ~30% when doing NAT at > 10GBit/s and also utilizing the build in updated drivers for Intel NICs and WireGuard.
We are looking forward to the release of this years LTS kernel and we hope to ship this in the final 1.3 release.