Open-source News

Stock Market - Financial Content

Google News - Tue, 06/20/2023 - 04:42
Stock Market  Financial Content

F2FS Preparing To Land Async Buffered Write Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/20/2023 - 03:16
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is preparing to land async buffered write support into the Linux kernel as another performance win for this flash-optimized file-system...

Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 23:29
Red Hat engineers are working to deal with Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) being too costly for mitigating Spectre V2 and Retbleed on older Intel Xeon Scalable processors. A new patch has been floated to disable IBRS when idle and is working out well at least for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 while isn't clear yet if it will be accepted into the upstream kernel...

SVT-AV1 1.6 Squeezes Out Even More Performance For CPU-Based AV1 Encoding

Phoronix - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 22:20
SVT-AV1 1.6 is now available as the latest version for this leading CPU-based AV1 encoder that is now enjoying 30~40% faster performance with high quality presets...

Revised Intel Shadow Stack Support May Be Ready For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 19:55
Intel engineers had sent in Shadow Stack support for Linux 6.4 as this feature part of Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) but it hit a last-minute snag during the merge window with issues raised by Linus Torvalds. Now it looks like the cleaned-up Shadow Stack code will be re-submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...

Pages