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SNC/NPS Tuning For Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series To Further Boost Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 12/01/2023 - 20:00
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series offer great performance out-of-the-box for Linux desktop/workstation users as shown in my Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X benchmarks along with the Threadripper PRO 7995WX. While a more common tunable on the EPYC side, the Threadripper 7000 series can also benefit from Nodes Per Socket (NPS) / Sub-NUMA Clustering (SNC) tuning for enhancing the performance of some workloads. In this article is a look at dozens of benchmarks while looking at the performance impact of SNC2/SNC4 adjustments for the Zen 4 Threadripper.

Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights

Phoronix - Fri, 12/01/2023 - 18:00
November was very busy on Phoronix with all of the benchmarking around the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series, the much anticipated Framework 13 laptop review, a lot of Wayland accomplishments being made this week, excitement building around the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release, and the Linux 6.7 kernel getting underway with new features like the Bcachefs file-system...

Servo Browser Engine Continues On Its Path To Be Embed-Friendly

Phoronix - Fri, 12/01/2023 - 14:21
Following good progress in October and this former-Mozilla browser engine project receiving funding recently for "table" support, Servo developers continued implementing more functionality over the course of November...

OpenZFS 2.2.2 & OpenZFS 2.1.14 Released To Fix Data Corruption Issue

Phoronix - Fri, 12/01/2023 - 13:00
Following a rare but nasty data corruption issue, OpenZFS 2.2.2 and OpenZFS 2.1.14 were released this evening to address the problem...

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