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Expanded Platform Support For AMD Dynamic Boost Control Being Worked On For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 21:59
Since early this year AMD has been working on Linux enablement patches for Dynamic Boost Control (DBC). This is a new feature of some AMD SoCs that allow an "authenticated entity" to have greater control over certain SoC characteristics to improve the power/performance. AMD DBC was merged for Linux 6.6 just days ago while already new patches have been posted that extend the supported platforms for this Dynamic Boost Control functionality...

Bcachefs Looks Like It Won't Make It For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 18:42
While we've been looking forward to Bcachefs landing and carrying out a fresh round of performance testing of Bcachefs against other file-system options, it's looking clear now that Bcachefs won't be landing for the Linux 6.6 merge window...

Linux 6.6 KVM Brings Intel & AMD Fixes, SEV-ES DebugSwap, New RISC-V Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 18:25
Merged on Thursday were a batch of KVM virtualization changes for the Linux 6.6 kernel...

OpenZFS 2.2-rc4 Delivers Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 18:14
OpenZFS 2.2 has been in the works to provide Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksumming, block cloning and other new features. It's looking like that release will be wrapped up soon while released on Thursday was v2.2-rc4 to help encourage last minute testing of this file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Intel QAT Zstd Plugin v0.1 Released For Speeding Up Zstandard Compression

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 17:59
As a big win for Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) accelerator found as an option with Sapphire Rapids processors and prior QAT hardware, there's been a QAT Zstd plug-in to provide big performance/efficiency benefits. Version 0.1 of that plug-in was released today...

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