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Intel Fixing Up Sub-NUMA Clustering For Linux So That It Behaves With RDT

Phoronix - Tue, 09/12/2023 - 02:44
Sub-NUMA Clustering with Intel Xeon processors allows for splitting up the CPU cores, cache, and memory into multiple NUMA domains for enhancing the performance of NUMA-aware applications. While SNC can help in a number of cases especially plenty of HPC and server workloads, currently it's not properly supported if making use of Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel CPUs. That is in the process of changing with new Linux kernel patches being worked on by Intel...

Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 22:32
KDE developer David Edmundson has written an interesting blog post looking at robustness improvements coming with Qt 6.6 via QtWayland compositor handoffs support...

VKD3D-Proton 2.10 Released With More Performance Improvements, Game/Driver Workarounds

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 22:00
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's stellar Linux graphics/Proton team has released VKD3D-Proton 2.10 as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop Vulkan that allows for modern Windows games to run on Linux atop Steam Play...

Linux 6.6 Enables Tracking Per-CPU Cgroup CPU Usage Stats

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 21:03
With the Linux 6.6 merge window the cgroup changes brought one change worth mentioning...

RADV Ray-Tracing Monolithic Pipelines Support Merged For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 20:22
The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support in its ray-tracing (RT) code path for monolithic pipelines...

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