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AMD Posts QDMA Linux Driver For Review

Phoronix - Sat, 05/27/2023 - 02:00
A new AMD open-source driver posted for code review that's aiming for the upstream Linux kernel is the QDMA driver...

Those Using The XFS File-System Will Want To Avoid Linux 6.3 For Now

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 22:23
Multiple users have been reporting metadata corruption issues on the XFS file-system when upgrading to the Linux 6.3 stable kernel...

Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Quick Linux Competition With The Radeon RX 7600

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 21:13
For those wondering how the performance of Intel Arc Graphics is relative to the newly-launched AMD Radeon RX 7600 and other recent graphics cards, here are a couple of benchmarks for the Arc Graphics using the new Linux 6.3 stable kernel paired with Mesa 23.2-dev for the latest open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

Ubuntu Forms An HPC Team To Push AI, High Performance Computing Workloads

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 20:56
Announced on Thursday was the Ubuntu High Performance Computing (HPC) team to promote Ubuntu Linux for running AI/ML, energy, bioinformatics, meteorology, and other workloads on Ubuntu Linux...

Linux Preps Hybrid SMP Fix To Avoid Upcoming Laptops Appearing As 11 Socket Monsters

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 20:17
A fix is on its way to the mainline Linux 6.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernel series to fix x86 topology reporting for Intel Hybrid systems. The topology bug within the kernel becomes more pronounced for Meteor Lake laptops where currently internal Intel test laptops can report the systems having 11 CPU sockets rather than the proper number of cores all contained within one CPU socket...

Big Throughput Boost & Lower Latency With New Patch For Linux Checksum Function

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 18:21
Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.5 cycle kicking off in about one month is a new Linux x86 optimization patch for further tuning csum_partial, the function used within the kernel for calculating 32-bit checksums on blocks of data. Much lower latency and higher throughput can be observed with the newly-optimized csum_partial on the latest Intel/AMD processors...

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