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Limited Support For The AMD Pensando Elba SoC Might Finally Land Upstream In Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 23:33
For a year and a half now Pensando has been working on enabling their Elba SoC support for the mainline Linux kernel - a process that coincidentally began just days after AMD announced it was acquiring Pensando. Over the past 18 months the AMD-Pensando Elba SoC enablement work has now been through 16 rounds of code review but still isn't over the finish line yet but some of the initial enablement code might finally land with Linux 6.7...

VirtIO VSOCK MSG_ZEROCOPY To Begin Landing For Linux 6.7: More Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 21:13
The first of three parts for MSG_ZEROCOPY preparations for the VirtIO-Vsock driver have been queued into net-next ahead of planned introduction in the Linux 6.7 kernel as another means of achieving greater performance within virtual machines...

Intel Has Another Series Optimizing Linux Performance With PCP High Auto-Tuning

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 20:10
Intel's open-source software engineers are known for many great performance optimizations to the Linux kernel. Over the years Intel has contributed countless performance optimizations to the kernel and related Linux components that have made significant improvements not only for Intel hardware but x86_64 as a whole and at times CPU architecture independent improvements. One of their newest performance optimizing patch series is around Per-CPU Pageset (PCP) high auto-tuning...

Intel's Habana Labs Driver Quietly Drops References To The Greco AI Processor

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 18:40
Announced last year at the Intel Vision conference was the Habana Labs Gaudi2 and Greco AI hardware. Since then we've seen a lot of Linux kernel driver work happen for enabling the Gaudi2 second-generation training and inference AI processor while there hasn't been anything real in the way for Greco, which was the successor to the Goya AI processor. Now references to Habana Labs Greco are being removed from the driver...

Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 18:10
Qt 6.6 is nearing release for this open-source and cross-platform toolkit while out this morning is the release candidate...

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