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       every week or two)
       <ul>
 	<li>
-	  ...though some features aren't ready to use when they firat
+	  ...though some features aren't ready to use when they first
 	  appear in a release
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 </div>
 
-<div class="slide">
-  <h1>Lustre filesystem [3.12]</h1>
-  <ul>
-    <li>
-      A distributed filesystem, popular for cluster computing
-      applications
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      Developed out-of-tree since 1999, but now added to Linux staging
-      directory
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      Was included in squeeze but dropped from wheezy as it didn't
-      support Linux 3.2
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      Userland is now missing from Debian
-    </li>
-  </ul>
-</div>
-
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Network busy-polling [3.11] (1)</h1>
   <p>A conventional network request/response process looks like:</p>
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   </ul>
 </div>
 
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Lustre filesystem [3.12]</h1>
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+      A distributed filesystem, popular for cluster computing
+      applications
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Developed out-of-tree since 1999, but now added to Linux staging
+      directory
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Was included in squeeze but dropped from wheezy as it didn't
+      support Linux 3.2
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Userland is now missing from Debian
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Btrfs offline dedupe [3.12]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Btrfs generally does COW rather than updating in-place, allowing
+      snapshots and file copies to defer the actual copying and save
+      space
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Filesystems may still end up with multiple copies of the same
+      file content
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Btrfs doesn't actively merge these duplicates, but userland can
+      tell it to do so
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Many file dedupe tools are packaged for Debian, but not one that
+      works with this Btrfs feature, e.g. bedup
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>nftables [3.13]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Linux has several firewall APIs - iptables, ip6tables, arptables
+      and ebtables
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      All limited to single protocol, and need a kernel module for
+      each match type and each action
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Kernel's internal netfilter API is more flexible
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      nftables exposes more of this flexibility, allowing userland
+      to provide firewall code for a specialised VM (similar to BPF)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      nftables userland tool uses this API and is already packaged
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Eventually, old APIs will be removed and old userland
+      tools must be ported to use nftables
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>User-space lockdep [3.14]</h1>
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+      Kernel threads and interrupts all run in same address space,
+      using several different synchronisation mechanisms
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Easy to introduce bugs that can result in deadlock, but hard to
+      reproduce them
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Kernel's 'lockdep' system dynamically tracks locking operations
+      and detects <em>potential</em> deadlocks
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Now available as a userland library!  Except we need to package
+      it (build from linux-tools source package)
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>arm64 and ppc64el ports</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      'arm64' architecture was added in Linux 3.7, but was not yet
+      usable, and no real hardware was available at the time
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Upstream Linux arm64 kernel, and Debian packages, should now run
+      on emulators and real hardware
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      'powerpc' architecture has been available for many years,
+      but didn't support kernel running little-endian
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Linux 3.13 added little-endian kernel suport, along with new
+      userland ELF ABI variant - we call it ppc64el
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Both ports now being bootstrapped in unstable and are candidates
+      for jessie release
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>File-private locking [3.15]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      POSIX says that closing a file descriptor removes
+      the <em>process</em>'s locks on that file
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      What if process has multiple file descriptors for the same
+      file?  It loses all locks obtained through any descriptor!
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Multithreaded processes may require serialisation around
+      file open/close to ensure they open each file exactly once
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Hard and symbolic links can hide that two files are really the
+      same
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Linux now provides file-private locks, associated with a
+      specific open file and removed when last descriptor for the
+      open file is closed
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Multiqueue block devices [3.16]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Each block device has a command queue (possibly shared with
+      other devices)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Queue may be partly implemented by hardware (NCQ) or only
+      in software
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      A single queue means initiation is serialised and completion
+      involves IPI - can be bottleneck for fast devices
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      High-end SSDs support multiple queues, but kernel needed changes
+      to use them
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      <tt>mtip32xx</tt> driver now supports multiqueue, but SCSI
+      drivers don't yet - may be backport-able?
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Questions?</h1>
 </div>