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Linux 6.5 Now Defaults To AMD P-State "Active" EPP For Modern Ryzen Systems

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 02:16
The power management and ACPI feature changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel. As usual, it's most interesting on the Intel and AMD fronts with the power management changes for this kernel that will be released as stable in August...

Linux 6.5 To Enhance Load Balancing For Intel Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 23:17
Ingo Molnar submitted today the scheduler updates destined for the Linux 6.5 kernel. Most noticeable with the CPU scheduler changes are enhancing SMP (Hyper Threading) load balancing for Intel Core CPUs of a hybrid design with a mix of P and E cores...

Blender 3.6 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Ray-Tracing, AMD HIP RT On Windows

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 23:08
Blender 3.6 is out today as the latest exciting update for this open-source, cross-platform 3D modeling software. Exciting with Blender 3.6 is adding Intel hardware ray-tracing support when making use of Arc Graphics. AMD graphics cards on Windows can also enjoy HIP ray-tracing but sadly isn't supported yet for Linux...

Building A Full Linux Debug Kernel Optimized From 53GB To 25GB Heap Use

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 22:00
Processing the vmlinux.o object with objtool has been the most memory intensive step of the Linux kernel build process. Prior patches have already worked to reduce this objtool memory use while compiling the Linux kernel and a big patch series now set for Linux 6.5 is set to sharply reduce the maximum heap use...

Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 18:41
Bcachefs hopes to finally merge in Linux 6.5 while for those wanting a mature Linux file-system with all the bells and whistles, Btrfs is a good candidate worth considering. With Linux 6.5 there is a continuation of the recent Btrfs trend around performance improvements...

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Steadily Improving x64 Port

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 18:19
ReactOS is the open-source OS that's striving for Microsoft Windows software and driver binary compatibility that is 25 years in the making. ReactOS has been making steady progress while still considered in alpha form. Most of the ReactOS successes and user tinkering has been with the 32-bit build of the OS while they have been making steady progress recently on the x86_64 (x64) port...

AMD EDAC/RAS Code Adds GPU/Accelerator Support In Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 18:08
In addition to yesterday bringing EDAC support for AMD Zen 4 client CPUs, the set of RAS "Reliability, Availability and Serviceability" updates for the Linux 6.5 kernel have separately brought initial GPU/accelerator support...

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