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F2FS Preparing Support For Atomic Replace

Phoronix - Thu, 09/29/2022 - 03:42
A new feature being worked on for the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is the ability to atomically replace files...

Intel's Codeplay Will Now Oversee The oneAPI Development Community

Phoronix - Wed, 09/28/2022 - 23:50
The second day of the Intel Innovation event in San Jose featured Intel CTO Greg Lavender talking up the greatness of open standards, open-source, and their wonderful oneAPI initiative. There were a few bits of oneAPI news as part of today's keynote...

AMD PMF Cool & Quiet Framework Readied For Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Wed, 09/28/2022 - 22:26
One of the new drivers set to make its debut with Linux 6.1 is the AMD Platform Management Framework "PMF" with an intent on "making AMD PCs smarter, quieter, power efficient by adapting to user behavior and environment" with next-generation hardware. Another part of AMD PMF, the Cool and Quiet Framework (CnQF) has also been queued up for introduction in Linux 6.1...

The Work-In-Progress Rust-Written Apple DRM Driver Manages To Start Wayland's Weston

Phoronix - Wed, 09/28/2022 - 20:46
Last week the Rust-written Apple Direct Rendering manager (DRM) Linux driver for supporting Apple M1/M2 graphics managed to rendered its first cube. Asahi Linux contributor Asahi Lina today is back at it and working on getting more of this experimental kernel driver working for the Linux desktop...

Revisiting AMD EPYC 7773X "Milan-X" Performance With Linux 6.0 + Ubuntu 22.10

Phoronix - Wed, 09/28/2022 - 18:55
Earlier this month I revisited the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Linux performance for looking at the effectiveness of the AMD 3D V-Cache under Linux when now using the very latest Linux kernel along with other new/updated benchmarks of the past several months. While already being very impressed by the performance of AMD EPYC Milan-X since those 3D V-Cache server CPUs launched earlier this year, here is a fresh round of Linux benchmarks looking at the EPYC 7763 vs. 7773X performance when running on a development snapshot of Ubuntu 22.10 paired with the Linux 6.0 development kernel and other newer software packages for a very up-to-date look at the performance potential on the server side.

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