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Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL

Phoronix - 2 hours 32 min ago
Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements...

AMD Contributes ONNX Runtime Backend To FFmpeg DNN Filter

Phoronix - 4 hours 47 min ago
An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with FFmpeg...

Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS "Beast Of A Driver"

Phoronix - 5 hours 2 min ago
Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel's staging area. Nearly a decade later, it's still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver...

KSMBD Adds SMB2 Compression Support In Linux 7.2

Phoronix - 5 hours 28 min ago
Merged back in Linux 5.15 in 2021 was KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 file server. There hasn't been much KSMBD news to report on recently but for Linux 7.2 there is now SMB2 compression support...

5 Ways to Check Remote Port Connectivity in Linux

Tecmint - 6 hours 36 min ago
The post 5 Ways to Check Remote Port Connectivity in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

You’ve just deployed a service, opened a firewall rule, or configured a reverse proxy, and now you want to confirm

The post 5 Ways to Check Remote Port Connectivity in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

MGLRU Improvement Yielding Nice Gains On Linux 7.2: MongoDB 30~100% Higher Throughput

Phoronix - 17 hours 51 min ago
The many memory management "MM" related improvements were recently merged to Git for the Linux 7.2 kernel. As typical most kernel cycles, some of the low-level improvements can yield nice efficiency wins and better performance in different areas...

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