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GCC 15 Now Enables AArch64 Early Scheduling For -O3/-Ofast Modes

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 23:13
The GCC "-fschedule-insns" option allows for reordering of instructions to eliminate execution stalls when required data is unavailable. This early scheduling option can be beneficial for systems with slow floating point performance or costly memory load instructions. With the upcoming GCC 15 release, AArch64 will be enabling this early scheduling optimization at the -O3 optimization level and higher...

Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded To Support More GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 21:40
The community-based ROCm SDK Builder is an unofficial project leveraging the open-source AMD ROCm code and making it easy to build machine learning and GPU compute software across a range of environments and helping ensure proper integration with other machine learning tools and models. The ROCm SDK Builder takes special focus on the consumer Radeon iGPUs and dGPUs that typically aren't as much of a focus for the upstream AMD ROCm stack...

Intel Xe Driver Introducing SVM, EU Stall Sampling & Other New Features For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 19:55
Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It's a big one...

New Round Of Driver Optimizations For AMD RadeonSI In Mesa 25.1

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 19:30
Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code...

Mesa Lands A Shader Statistics Framework For More Unification Across Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 19:19
The latest bit of increased driver code unification and decreasing code duplication among Mesa's OpenGL and Vulkan drivers is finally introducing a common shader statistic framework...

Intel VSEC Driver Preps For Diamond Rapids In Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 19:14
Sent out today was a batch of platform-drivers-x86 fixes for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Notable among these fixes is introducing Intel Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support to the Intel VSEC driver...

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