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Linux 6.15 Perf Tooling Introduces Ability For Latency Profiling

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 03:34
The perf tools changes were merged today for the Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable this cycle for the wonderful perf tooling is introducing the notion of latency profiling by leveraging kernel scheduler information. This latency data will be further useful for Linux software engineers working to optimize system latency/performance...

wlroots Merges Wayland Color Management / HDR Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 01:23
The wlroots library used by the Sway compositor and other Wayland compositors has merged support for the color-management-v1 protocol that is notable for enabling High Dynamic Range (HDR) display use under Linux...

Dasharo Platform Driver Aims To Enhance The Experience Using This Coreboot Downstream

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 00:43
The consulting firm 3mdeb's Dasharo open-source firmware distribution derived from Coreboot could soon feature improved integration under Linux thanks to a pending ACPI platform driver...

Redis-Forked Valkey 8.1 Released - Turns To AVX2 For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 23:55
It's been just over one year since the Linux Foundation and partners announced Valkey as a fork of Redis. Following the release of Redis 8.0 in September for this in-memory key-value database, Valkey 8.1 is out today...

Linux 6.15 exFAT Can Delete Files Much Faster: 4+ Minutes To 1.6 Second Optimization

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 22:23
For those dealing with exFAT formatted storage devices under Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel has a big optimization for yielding much faster delete performance when making use of the "discard" mount option...

AMD Software Advancements, RDNA4 & Ryzen 9900X3D Series Excited Linux Users In Q1

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 21:00
With Q1 drawing to an end, here is a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source news and Linux hardware reviews around AMD during the quarter on Phoronix. With 109 AMD news articles so far this quarter around their Linux software/hardware efforts and another 20 AMD Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles, they continue firing on all cylinders for pushing both their client and server wares forward outside the confines of Windows...

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