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Intel Has More CXL Improvements Ready For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 13:00
Intel engineers continue carrying out much of the upstream Linux kernel enablement for the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem for supporting this high-speed open standard for servers. For the Linux 6.3 cycle is yet more feature work ready for the mainline kernel...

Linux Performance Patches Revved To Avoid Too Many Unnecessary Cross-CPU Wake-ups

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 04:45
A patch series started by Intel to improve the Linux kernel's fair scheduler code, which has also seen testing/feedback from AMD engineers and other stakeholders, continues to be improved upon. The focus of this patch series is on avoiding too many cross-CPU wake-ups when they are unnecessary. In doing so, these patches help enhance the Linux performance particularly on high core count systems...

Mobileye Provides Khronos With An Open-Source OpenCL Tensor & Tiling Library

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 03:47
Autonomous driving technology company Mobileye has contributed to The Khronos Group an open-source OpenCL tensor and tiling library...

AMDGPU X.Org Driver 23.0 Released With Few Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 02:40
AMD today released xf86-video-amdgpu 23.0 as their first X.Org DDX display driver update in one year...

Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver Nearly Ready With AMD Radeon GPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 01:06
The Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation that was merged last year into Mesa 22.3 has been an extremely promising effort. One of the issues though is that with the current mainline state inside Mesa has lacked support for working with AMD Radeon GPUs via the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, but that is now coming to fruition...

Intel LKGS, AMD Automatic IBRS & Caching AMD Debug Registers Merged For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 00:23
The x86 CPU updates have been merged for the Linux 6.3 kernel that include a few new features worth mentioning for AMD and Intel customers...

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