Integrated DTrace support in the UEK R3 kernel and user-space tracing of DTrace-enabled applications.

Device mapper support for an external, read-only device as the origin for a thinly-provisioned volume.

The loop driver provides the same I/O functionality as dm-nfs by extending the AIO interface to perform direct I/O. To create the loopback device, use the losetup command instead of dmsetup. The dm-nfs module is not provided with UEK R3.

Btrfs send and receive subcommands allow you to record the differences between two subvolumes, which can either be snapshots of the same subvolume or parent and child subvolumes.

Btrfs quota groups (qgroups) allow you to set different size limits for a volume and its subvolumes.

Btrfs supports replacing devices without unmounting or otherwise disrupting access to the file system.

Ext4 quotas are enabled as soon as the file system is mounted.

TCP controlled delay management (CoDel) is a new active queue management algorithm that is designed to handle excessive buffering across a network connection (bufferbloat). The algorithm is based on for how long packets are buffered in the queue rather than the size of the queue. If the minimum queuing time rises above a threshold value, the algorithm discards packets and reduces the transmission rate of TCP.

TCP connection repair implements process checkpointing and restart, which allows a TCP connection to be stopped on one host and restarted on another host. Container virtualization can use this feature to move a network connection between hosts.

TCP and STCP early retransmit allows fast retransmission (under certain conditions) to reduce the number of duplicate acknowledgements.

TCP fast open (TFO) can speed up the opening of successive TCP connections between two endpoints by eliminating one round time trip (RTT) from some TCP transactions.

The TCP small queue algorithm is another mechanism intended to help deal with bufferbloat. The algorithm limits the amount of data that can be queued for transmission by a socket.

The secure computing mode feature (seccomp) is a simple sandbox mechanism that, in strict mode, allows a thread to transition to a state where it cannot make any system calls except from a very restricted set (_exit(), read(), sigreturn(), and write()) and it can only use file descriptors that were already open. In filter mode, a thread can specify an arbitrary filter of permitted systems calls that would be forbidden in strict mode. Access to this feature is by using the prctl() system call. For more information, see the prctl(2) manual page.

The OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 2.0 stack supports the following protocols:

The OFED 2.0 stack also supports the following RDS features:

Paravirtualization support has been enabled for Oracle Linux guests on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.

The Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) tunneling protocol overlays a virtual network on an existing Layer 3 infrastructure to allow the transfer of Layer 2 Ethernet packets over UDP. This feature is intended for use by a virtual network infrastructure in a virtualized environment. Use cases include virtual machine migration and software-defined networking (SDN).