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Linux 6.5 With AMD P-State EPP Default Brings Performance & Power Efficiency Benefits For Ryzen Servers

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 21:25
With the new Linux 6.5 kernel stable series one of the many new features is defaulting to the AMD P-State driver with the EPP/active mode compared to the long-used default of the ACPI CPUFreq driver. As shown in various Phoronix articles this can help with the mobile/desktop performance with this new default change while this article is looking at the Ryzen for server benefits too.

PuzzleFS Continues Striving To Be The Best File-System For Containers

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 19:56
Amid all the recent chatter around Bcachefs working its way toward mainline and all the ongoing improvements to existing Linux file-systems, you may have forgotten about Puzzlefs as the new file-system aiming to be an optimal solution for containers and with a kernel driver written in the Rust programming language...

AMDGPU LLVM Backend Begins Seeing Additions For New RDNA3 Refresh Instructions

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 18:39
Over the summer the AMDGPU compiler back-end in upstream LLVM began with new targets for GFX1150 and GFX1151 which given all things known are likely the "RDNA3 Refresh" APUs. That work started out light with not much in the way of different code paths from the existing GFX11 support but we're beginning to see some new instructions added for the RDNA3 refresh graphics processors...

CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 16:00
The CentOS board has approved the creation of a CentOS Integration Special Interest Group (SIG) to assist those building products and services atop Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or in particular its upstream, CentOS Stream...

6 Best Linux Boot Loaders

Tecmint - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 12:31
The post 6 Best Linux Boot Loaders first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When you turn on your machine, immediately after POST (Power On Self Test) is completed successfully, the BIOS locates the configured bootable media, and reads

The post 6 Best Linux Boot Loaders first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 23.1.8 Released While Waiting On Mesa 23.2

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 12:00
Mesa 23.1.8 was released on Wednesday as yet another bi-weekly stable release for the Mesa 23.1 release as that series drags on while waiting for Mesa 23.2 to materialize...

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