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Intel Has Another Series Optimizing Linux Performance With PCP High Auto-Tuning

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 20:10
Intel's open-source software engineers are known for many great performance optimizations to the Linux kernel. Over the years Intel has contributed countless performance optimizations to the kernel and related Linux components that have made significant improvements not only for Intel hardware but x86_64 as a whole and at times CPU architecture independent improvements. One of their newest performance optimizing patch series is around Per-CPU Pageset (PCP) high auto-tuning...

Intel's Habana Labs Driver Quietly Drops References To The Greco AI Processor

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 18:40
Announced last year at the Intel Vision conference was the Habana Labs Gaudi2 and Greco AI hardware. Since then we've seen a lot of Linux kernel driver work happen for enabling the Gaudi2 second-generation training and inference AI processor while there hasn't been anything real in the way for Greco, which was the successor to the Goya AI processor. Now references to Habana Labs Greco are being removed from the driver...

Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 18:10
Qt 6.6 is nearing release for this open-source and cross-platform toolkit while out this morning is the release candidate...

OCRmyPDF 15.0 Released For Optical Character Recognition Of PDF Files

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 17:52
A major update to OCRmyPDF is now available, the open-source project that can work on scanned PDFs and other PDF documents to add an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to files for allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. OCRmyPDF makes it a breeze in dealing with scanned PDF text files and now with OCRmyPDF v15 is even better...

Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 03:08
Queued up into the Btrfs file-system driver's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.7 cycle is the Temp-FSID (Same-FSID) feature that is being pursued for use by Valve's Steam Deck game console. The functionality is to overcome a limitation of allowing Btrfs to mount two different devices holding the same file-system image and therefore the same file-system ID...

Intel Continues GCC Compiler Preparations For AVX10 & APX

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 23:28
Since announcing the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AVX10 back in July, Intel's open-source compiler engineers have been busy preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler toolchains for these major CPU extensions to be found with future Intel processors...

The Downfall Mitigation Impact For Xeon E-2300 Series On Linux 6.5

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 22:40
Last month the Downfall CPU security vulnerability was disclosed that impacts various AVX/AVX-512 workloads. Now that there's been a few weeks for the Linux kernel code to settle around the mitigation and the latest Intel CPU microcode becoming more broadly available, here is a fresh look at the performance impact of the Downfall mitigation on affected AVX workloads.

Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 22:05
Ahead of the formal announcement on Tuesday, Mozilla today uploaded the Firefox 118.0 release binaries as the latest monthly update for this cross-platform web browser...

PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 20:03
The PipeWire audio and video streams solution for the Linux desktop is planning its big version "1.0" release for later in the year...

KDE Making It Easier To Find Or Offer "Sponsored Work"

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 18:38
If you are particularly annoyed by a bug or missing feature with the KDE desktop, there's a new and easier means of advertising your interest in sponsoring work to get a bug or feature addressed. Similarly for experienced KDE developers a more centralized means of finding sponsored work opportunities...

Mesa 23.2 Will Try To Release This Week

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 18:28
The much-delayed Mesa 23.2 will try to make it out this week with Mesa 23.2-rc4 having been issued on Sunday...

Dynamic Triple Buffering Patch Updated For GNOME 45

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 18:16
GNOME 45 released last week and while it has many interesting desktop improvements, a feature still not found upstream is the Canonical-led work on dynamic triple buffering for Mutter...

Linux 6.6-rc3 Released With MG Timestamps Removed

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 05:53
With roughly just about one month to go until the stable release, Linux 6.6-rc3 was released today as the newest test release of Linux 6.6...

Linux 6.7 Will Allow More Efficient Use With Intel QAT Gen4 Hardware

Mon, 09/25/2023 - 01:16
With the Linux 6.7 kernel this winter there is a new feature coming to Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) device driver that will allow more efficient use with QAT Gen4 hardware such as the latest-generation Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors...

AMD Prepares PMF Linux Driver For "Smart PC Solutions Builder"

Sun, 09/24/2023 - 22:34
The AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) Linux driver is preparing to support a new but potentially controversial feature that's seen little public information so far: the Smart PC Solutions Builder...

Linux's Multi-Grain Timestamps Short-Lived: Removed From The Kernel After A Few Weeks

Sun, 09/24/2023 - 18:54
One of the new features merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel was multi-grained timestamps for the VFS layer and wiring it up for the EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and Tmpfs file-systems. This alternative though to coarse-grained timestamps ended up exposing some problems and this week ahead of Linux 6.6-rc3, the feature has been stripped entirely from the kernel...

Intel's DAOS 2.4 Storage Engine Released

Sun, 09/24/2023 - 18:40
While Intel divested its storage business and Intel Optane was sadly discontinued, one of the interesting open-source software projects from its storage efforts has been DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage engine. Version 2.4 of the DAOS software-defined object store designed for high-speed storage was released this past week...

Mold 2.2 Linker Released With More Optimizations, BLAKE3 Crypto Hashing

Sun, 09/24/2023 - 18:20
Rui Ueyama published today a new version of Mold, the open-source high speed linker that has easily outpaced the common linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects. Mold 2.2 continues work on its performance quest, expanding its multiple CPU architectures supported, and other new work...

Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging - Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+

Sun, 09/24/2023 - 03:05
Mike Blumenkrantz, who is part of Valve's stellar Linux graphics driver team, has managed another impressive feat of further optimizing the Mesa Vulkan driver code that benefits multiple drivers / hardware vendors...

Cairo 1.18 Released - First Stable Release In Five Years

Sun, 09/24/2023 - 00:24
Cairo 1.18 was released today as the first major stable release to this 2D graphics library in five years. This vector-based graphics library is widely-used for a variety of purposes from GNOME's GTK toolkit to other apps making use of Cairo for targeting different back-ends from PDFs to OpenGL contexts. Mozilla Firefox, WebKit, Mono, and many other open-source projects are notable users of Cairo...

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