The following features that are included in the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 are still under development, but are made available for testing and evaluation purposes:

• DCTCP (Data Center TCP)

  DCTCP enhances congestion control by making use of the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) feature of state-of-the-art network switches. DCTCP reduces buffer occupancy and improves throughput by allowing a system to react more intelligently to congestion than is possible using TCP.

• DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device)

  A shared-nothing, synchronously replicated block device (RAID1 over network), designed to serve as a building block for high availability (HA) clusters. It requires a cluster manager (for example, pacemaker) for automatic failover.

• Kernel module signing facility

  Applies cryptographic signature checking to modules on module load, checking the signature against a ring of public keys compiled into the kernel. GPG is used to do the cryptographic work and determines the format of the signature and key data.

• NFS over RDMA interoperation with ZFS and Oracle Solaris

  NFS over RDMA does not yet fully interoperate with ZFS and Oracle Solaris. NFS over RDMA for NFS versions 3 and 4 is supported for Oracle Linux systems using the Oracle InfiniBand stack and is more efficient than using NFS with TCP over IPoIB. Currently, only the Mellanox® ConnectX-2 and ConnectX-3 Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) pass the full Connectathon NFS test suite and are supported.

• Server-side parallel NFS

  Server-side parallel NFS (pNFS) improves the scalability and performance of an NFS server by making file metadata and data available on separate paths.