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Cloud Hypervisor 35 Released With Few New Features & Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 17:32
Cloud Hypervisor 35 was released on Thursday for this open-source, Rust-based VMM that was originally started by Intel software engineers before evolving into a multi-vendor initiative for secure and cloud focused workloads...

AMD's GPUOpen Releases Updated RGP, RGA & RMV Tools For Developers

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 07:49
AMD's GPUOpen team today released a number of updated components for graphics application/engine developers...

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...

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