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Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly"

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 05:00
"Some people relax with a nice drink by the pool, I relax by playing around with inline [Assembly code]," as a nice quote of the day as Linus Torvalds explained after he took on improving upon a performance optimization patch that was proposed for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window...

Linux 6.5 Now Defaults To AMD P-State "Active" EPP For Modern Ryzen Systems

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 02:16
The power management and ACPI feature changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel. As usual, it's most interesting on the Intel and AMD fronts with the power management changes for this kernel that will be released as stable in August...

Linux 6.5 To Enhance Load Balancing For Intel Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 23:17
Ingo Molnar submitted today the scheduler updates destined for the Linux 6.5 kernel. Most noticeable with the CPU scheduler changes are enhancing SMP (Hyper Threading) load balancing for Intel Core CPUs of a hybrid design with a mix of P and E cores...

Blender 3.6 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Ray-Tracing, AMD HIP RT On Windows

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 23:08
Blender 3.6 is out today as the latest exciting update for this open-source, cross-platform 3D modeling software. Exciting with Blender 3.6 is adding Intel hardware ray-tracing support when making use of Arc Graphics. AMD graphics cards on Windows can also enjoy HIP ray-tracing but sadly isn't supported yet for Linux...

Building A Full Linux Debug Kernel Optimized From 53GB To 25GB Heap Use

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 22:00
Processing the vmlinux.o object with objtool has been the most memory intensive step of the Linux kernel build process. Prior patches have already worked to reduce this objtool memory use while compiling the Linux kernel and a big patch series now set for Linux 6.5 is set to sharply reduce the maximum heap use...

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