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Benchmarking The Performance Impact To AMD Inception Mitigations

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 22:30
Last week the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public as a speculative side channel attack affecting Zen processors and different mitigation options based on the CPU generation. There wasn't too much communication around the performance implications of mitigating Inception while over the past week I have begun benchmarking the software and microcode updates on Ryzen and EPYC processors.

Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 22:26
Devuan is still alive and well for those wanting to run Debian GNU/Linux but without systemd. Devuan 5.0 is out today as the newest distro release that is now rebased atop Debian 12 Bookworm...

Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 21:53
Mozilla developers are celebrating that they are now faster than Google Chrome with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, although that test has been superseded by the JetStream benchmark...

Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 18:20
Maíra Canal with Igalia has sent out a set of patches for exposing GPU usage statistics for the Broadcom graphics processor found within the Raspberry Pi 4 single b oard computers...

AMD P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux Updated, Will Be Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 17:55
AMD's Preferred Core feature continues working its way toward the Linux kernel for this functionality that's been around since Zen 2...

Intel Sapphire Rapids PECI Support Coming With Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Tue, 08/15/2023 - 17:00
The Intel Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) changes have been prepped for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle and include extending support for including 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" server platforms...

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