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AMD Launches The Radeon RX 6650 XT / RX 6750 XT / RX 6950 XT

Phoronix - Tue, 05/10/2022 - 21:00
AMD today is launching the "refined" AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card line-up with new 2022 models being the RX 6650 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6950 XT graphics cards.

Dbus-Broker 30 Released For High Performance Linux Message Bus

Phoronix - Tue, 05/10/2022 - 19:43
In the absence of the BUS1 in-kernel IPC mechanism that appears stalled that was started after the failed KDBUS effort, Dbus-Broker has been taking off as the high performance, reliability-enhanced Linux message broker in user-space retaining compatibility with the reference D-Bus implementation...

AMD Updates Linux Patches For Lowering Idle Exit Latency

Phoronix - Tue, 05/10/2022 - 19:20
Last month an AMD engineer began posting Linux kernel patches so the kernel prefers the MWAIT instruction over HALT for lowering the CPU idle exit latency. Preferring MWAIT over HALT has been something Intel CPUs on Linux have preferred going back to the Core 2 days and indeed with modern AMD CPUs there is significant advantages to lowering the exit latency in doing so for the idle code. This morning the latest iteration of the work was posted...

Fedora 36 Is A Terrific Release Especially For Linux Enthusiasts, Power Users

Phoronix - Tue, 05/10/2022 - 18:19
Fedora 36 is releasing this morning as what is yet another release in recent times of being a very robust and bleeding-edge yet stable and reliable Linux distribution. I've already been running Fedora Workstation 36 and Fedora Server 36 snapshots on various systems in my benchmarking lab and this release has proven to be quite solid while adding new features and polish on top of the excellent Fedora 35...

Initial AMD GFX11 / RDNA3 Support Lands In Mesa, RADV Prepares For Task Shaders

Phoronix - Tue, 05/10/2022 - 17:49
Overnight some notable open-source AMD Radeon graphics driver code was merged into what will be the Mesa 22.2 release next quarter...

Experimental "UBD" Driver Posted As IO_uring-Based User-Space Block Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 05/10/2022 - 17:28
Ming Lei of Red Hat has published an early implementation of a IO_uring based user-space block driver for Linux...

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