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Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Linux Performance Evolution Since Launch

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 21:49
As we approach the end of 2022 and with Intel recently having revealed a January date for introducing Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids", here is a look at how the upstream Linux performance has evolved since the debut of the current-generation Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" processors debuted in early 2021. This article is looking at the Xeon Platinum 8380 Linux performance with benchmarks conducted on CentOS Stream, Clear Linux, and Ubuntu back when Ice Lake SP first debuted against now on the latest Linux OS releases.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Firmware Upstreamed

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 21:00
The last piece of the open-source driver equation for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 "RDNA3" series support on Linux is now properly upstream...

RADV Vulkan Driver Making Progress On Portal RTX Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 19:23
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is making progress on being able to run the new Portal RTX game...

Call Depth Tracking Coming To Linux 6.2 To Help Recover Performance On Skylake-Era CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 19:09
The work by Intel engineers the past few months on Call Depth Tracking as a less costly mitigation for Retbleed on Skylake-era processors is now set to be merged for the Linux 6.2 kernel...

Linux 6.2 Introducing Dedicated VFS POSIX ACL API

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 18:49
Microsoft's Christian Brauner has reached the finish line on his work to create a proper VFS POSIX Access Control List (ACL) API with the code now being merged for Linux 6.2...

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