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Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 05/10/2026 - 19:13
Following a presentation at last week's Linux storage, file-system, memory management and BPF summit (LSFMM) in Croatia where Linux I/O overhead compared to the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) was presented, Jens Axboe was motivated to pursue some new Linux kernel optimizations for greater per-core I/O performance. This lead IO_uring developer and Linux block maintainer has managed to achieve around a 60% increase to the per-core I/O performance with his latest patches...

Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages

Phoronix - Sun, 05/10/2026 - 18:40
With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news...

OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 05/10/2026 - 18:28
The newest open-source AMD Linux driver on the Linux kernel mailing list that has recently been undergoing review is prom21-xhci that exposes the temperature sensors found on the AMD Promontory 21 chipsets' xHCI controllers...

Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System

Phoronix - Sun, 05/10/2026 - 08:29
New tooling being worked on for possible mainline Linux kernel inclusion is Kconfirm as a new tool for detecting misusage and efforts stemming from Kconfig, the configuration system for kernel builds...

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