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Experimental Patches Allow eBPF To Extend The Linux Kernel's Scheduler

Phoronix - Wed, 11/30/2022 - 22:00
A set of "request for comments" patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement support for CPU scheduler policies to be implemented as (e)BPF programs...

Fedora 38 Looks To Shift RPM To Sequoia, A Rust-Based OpenPGP Parser

Phoronix - Wed, 11/30/2022 - 21:30
For the past two decades the RPM package manager software has relied upon its own OpenPGP parser implementation for dealing with package keys and signatures. With Fedora 38 they plan to have their RPM package shifted to use the Rust-written "Sequoia" parser instead...

AMD Auto IBRS Linux Patches Updated For Better Performance Over Generic Retpolines

Phoronix - Wed, 11/30/2022 - 19:31
While AMD EPYC Genoa launched a few weeks back and the Ryzen 7000 series launched in late September, one of the AMD Zen 4 patch series we are still waiting to arrive for the mainline Linux kernel is the Automatic IBRS enablement...

Compute Accelerator Subsystem Being Introduced For Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Wed, 11/30/2022 - 18:42
It's happening: the new "accel" compute accelerator subsystem is now queued for introduction with the Linux 6.2 kernel once that merge window opens in December...

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