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Linux 5.13 Introducing Misc Cgroup Controller

Wed, 04/28/2021 - 17:59

The Linux 5.13 development kernel is introducing a new "misc" cgroup controller. The misc cgroup controller is to be used for resources that are controlled by simply counting / limiting the number of resource instances in a scalar manner...

Updated FUTEX2 System Call Patches Posted For Helping Wine/Proton, Other Use-Cases

Wed, 04/28/2021 - 08:21

It's been several months since the last round of FUTEX2 patches for this system call to address the shortcomings of the current FUTEX system call. FUTEX2, which is designed in part with Wine/Proton in mind for better matching Windows semantics, has now seen a third iteration of the patches...

Intel Bus Lock Detection Merged For Linux 5.13

Wed, 04/28/2021 - 01:35

Intel's code for Linux kernel bus lock detection that works in conjunction with newer Intel CPUs has landed in the Linux kernel...

The Qt Company Publishes 2021 Roadmap

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 23:33

With Qt 6.1 being released next month, The Qt Company has published their 2021 road-map outlining some of their plans for the remainder of the calendar year...

Fedora 34 Released As A Hugely Exciting Update For This Linux Distribution

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 21:22

It's Fedora 34 day! Fedora 34 is now officially available and it's quite exciting on the feature front especially with the changes to be enjoyed in Fedora Workstation 34...

GCC 11.1 Released With Initial Work For Intel AMX / Sapphire Rapids, More C++20/C++23

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 21:12

GCC 11.1 is out today as the first stable release of the GNU Compiler Collection 11...

Arm Outlines More Neoverse N2 + Neoverse V1 Platform Details

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 20:52

Arm published today a set of blog posts outlining more power/performance and feature details of their forthcoming Neoverse N2 and Neoverse V1 platforms...

Stratis 2.4 Released With Multi-Threaded Daemon, Root File-System Support

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 19:11

While Fedora Workstation has been moving along with its Btrfs file-system usage and beginning to make greater use of its functionality, Red Hat does continue investing heavily in Stratis-Storage as their path forward for next-generation Linux storage with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Today marks the release of Stratis 2.4...

Char/Misc Brings Binder Freeze, PVPANIC, Habana Labs Improvements To Linux 5.13

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 18:23

The "char/misc" continues to be the random catch-all subsystem for the Linux kernel for drivers and buses not fitting well into other areas of the Linux kernel. Increasingly char/misc is hosting various accelerator/offload devices with the kernel still not yet introducing its own formal accelerator subsystem. With Linux 5.13 the "char/misc" pull continues to be heavy on a wide assortment of changes...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Correctly Rendering... Glxgears

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 18:00

While Zink implements OpenGL 4 and is running an increasing number of games with good performance, one of the simple "demos" it hasn't been able to render correctly in recent years has been glxgears. But that milestone is now crossed once again with the latest Mesa code...

EROFS Sends In "Big Pcluster" Support For Linux 5.13, Other Improvements

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 17:46

The EROFS read-only file-system developed by Huawei is seeing some new feature work with the in-development Linux 5.13 kernel...

USB + Thunderbolt Updates Hit Linux 5.13

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 15:38

Greg Kroah-Hartman sent in the big batch of USB and Thunderbolt subsystem updates on Monday for the in-development Linux 5.13 kernel...

Linux 5.13 Power Management Updates Submitted

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 08:18

Working on the Linux power management code is a never-ending and increasingly important task. The ACPI and power management updates were sent in today for the Linux 5.13 merge window though this isn't as exciting as some of the recent kernels heavy on CPUFreq and P-State changes...

Initial Support For The Apple M1 Lands In Linux 5.13

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 04:35

As expected, support for the initial Apple M1 SoC support and 2020 Apple Silicon devices (Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air) has landed into the Linux 5.13 kernel...

AMD EPYC 72F3 Linux Performance For 8-Core Zen 3 Server CPU

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 01:20

Over the past month we have been quite impressed by the performance of the EPYC 7003 series Milan processors when looking at the top-tier parts, but how does Zen 3 do for lower-tier server CPUs? Recently we were supplied with two EPYC 72F3 processors from AMD for these 8-core high performance SKUs. In our initial look at the EPYC 72F3 Linux performance is seeing how they compare to the similar previous-generation EPYC 7F32 processor.

Linux 5.13 Bringing Code For Intel SGX Within KVM Guests

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 23:42

Linux 5.11 brought mainline support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) after a lengthy mainlining process. Building off that SGX enclaves support in the mainline kernel more recently has been support for SGX with KVM virtualization and now for mainline Linux 5.13 that guest-side support is landing for KVM guests...