# Linux Action News 206

URL: /show/linux-action-news/206/
> Linus Torvalds attempts to get kernel developers to clean up their code, the performance regression that almost shipped, and the major production struggle Red Hat acknowledged this week.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 206
- Date: 2021-09-12
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Duration: 00:23:13
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/cea43503-f58a-46fd-9584-64aa6d736b26.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/JG6ES4l6ynI



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### Episode Links

  * [5.15 Merge window](https://lwn.net/Articles/867821/ "5.15 Merge window") — 3,440 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 5.15 development cycle.
  * [Amazon’s DAMON Merged Into Linux 5.15](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DAMON-Merged-Linux-5.15 "Amazon’s DAMON Merged Into Linux 5.15")
  * [Linux 5.15 Hit By Some Early Performance Regressions](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-Memcg-Regressions "Linux 5.15 Hit By Some Early Performance Regressions")
  * [AMD Posts New “AMD-PSTATE” CPUFreq Driver](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-PSTATE-2021 "AMD Posts New “AMD-PSTATE” CPUFreq Driver") — Leveraging CPPC For Better Perf-Per-Watt
  * [Linux 5.15 Readies More Code For Compile & Run-Time Detection Of Buffer Overflows](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-More-BO-Detection "Linux 5.15 Readies More Code For Compile & Run-Time Detection Of Buffer Overflows")
  * [AMD Finally Releases Overdue Linux CPPC Driver](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/zen-ryzen-cppc-linux-driver "AMD Finally Releases Overdue Linux CPPC Driver")
  * [OverlayFS On Linux 5.15 Improves Performance](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-OverlayFS "OverlayFS On Linux 5.15 Improves Performance")
  * [Linux 5.15’s New “-Werror” Behavior Is Causing A Lot Of Pain](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-Werror-Pain "Linux 5.15’s New “-Werror” Behavior Is Causing A Lot Of Pain") — That compiler flag addition makes all warnings be treated as errors, which in turn stops the kernel build.
  * [Re: [GIT PULL] ntfs3: new NTFS driver for 5.15 - Linus Torvalds](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjbtip559HcMG9VQLGPmkurh5Kc50y5BceL8Q8=aL0H3Q@mail.gmail.com/ "Re: \[GIT PULL\] ntfs3: new NTFS driver for 5.15 - Linus Torvalds")
  * [Red Hat will officially support EPEL in the future](https://www.itsfoss.net/red-hat-will-officially-support-epel-in-the-future/ "Red Hat will officially support EPEL in the future") — The new team is being formed and is expected to start work in October. 
  * [History and Philosophy of EPEL - Fedora Project Wiki](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_and_Philosophy_of_EPEL "History and Philosophy of EPEL - Fedora Project Wiki")
  * [Microsoft Releases Its August Update For The CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CBL-Mariner-August-2021 "Microsoft Releases Its August Update For The CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution") — One of the big fundamental changes with CBL-Mariner August 2021 is Microsoft now provides a public ISO to download of this Linux distribution.
  * [CBL-Mariner: Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances](https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner "CBL-Mariner: Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances")