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Blosc Compressor Adds AVX-512 Bitshuffle: 20% Faster Compression For Zen 4 X3D CPU

Phoronix - Sun, 11/05/2023 - 01:41
Blosc (c-blosc2) is a high performance compressor focused on binary data for efficient storage of large binary data-sets in-memory or on-disk and helping to speed-up memory-bound computations...

Linux 6.7 Boasts Some Scheduler Improvements & Intel IBRS Mitigation Change

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 21:11
Linux 6.6 saw EEVDF merged and Intel hybrid cluster scheduling re-introduced. The core scheduler improvements merged this past week for the in-development Linux 6.7 isn't quite as exciting but still there are some healthy scheduler improvements this round...

Mesa's Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL/OpenCL Interoperability

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 20:52
Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL implementation "Rusticl" has added initial support for the cl_khr_gl_sharing extension for working on OpenGL and OpenCL interoperability...

New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 19:04
The Linux 6.7 sound subsystem changes submitted this week by maintainer Takashi Iwai include support for a number of new audio devices/platforms...

Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 18:27
Recently there was some tuning in Mesa Git for helping with higher quality Radeon video encoding on Linux for GPUs using Video Core Next (VCN). Similar tuning has now been back-ported for older Radeon GPUs using the VCE encode engine and UVD video decoding...

Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 18:18
The crypto subsystem updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel includes the usual churn like various crypto acceleration updates for different SoCs and other routine changes plus is also limiting the role of some insecure and/or obsolete crypto hashing algorithms...

KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 18:01
The KDE Plasma 6 Alpha release is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 8 November, along with the soft feature freeze for Plasma 6.0 at that time...

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