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Pipe FMODE_NOWAIT Support Sent In For Linux 6.4 As A 10~23x Performance Improvement

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 21:00
While the Linux 6.4 merge window is closing this weekend, today on the last full day of the period is Jens Axboe submitting pipe FMODE_NOWAIT support as what he's described as a big performance and efficiency improvement...

RISC-V With Linux 6.4 Adds Hibernation / Suspend-To-Disk Support

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 20:16
One of the missing RISC-V features now in place for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is system hibernation / suspend-to-disk support...

Intel ISPC 1.20 Released: Smaller & Faster

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 20:08
Intel software engineers have released a new version of their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) as their C language variant with extensions for enhancing single-program, multiple-data programming for both CPUs and GPUs...

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 18:30
While these days Linus Torvalds is mostly dealing with herding new code into the Linux kernel and being a gate keeper rather than actively developing new kernel code himself, for the in-development Linux 6.4 he's found himself doing a bit of coding...

KDE Developers In Germany Planning For Plasma 6.0

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 18:18
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham shared that key KDE developers are currently in Germany for an in-person Plasma 6.0 development sprint...

Steam Beta Now Honors KDE & GNOME Global Scaling Factor

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 05:00
Today's Steam client beta will be a delight for some Linux gamers with the Steam client finally recognizing the GNOME and KDE desktop global scaling factor for text sizing...

AMD openSIL Will Eventually Replace AGESA, Supporting Both Client & Server CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 22:40
For those that haven't yet watched the AMD openSIL presentation from the OCP Regional Summit in Prague from April, the most interesting takeaway was deserving of its own article... AMD openSIL is planned to eventually replace the well known AGESA and that it will be supported across AMD's entire processor stack -- just not limited to EPYC server processors as some were initially concerned but will support all AMD processors...

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