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"MGLRU" Code Updated For More Performant Linux Page Reclamation

Phoronix - Sun, 11/14/2021 - 18:55
While not coming as part of the new 5.16 cycle, one of the exciting patch series to come about this year has been Google's work on the Multigenerational LRU (MGLRU) Framework for improving performance around the kernel's page reclaim handling...

QEMU 6.2 On The Way With SGX For VMs, Apple Silicon, More RISC-V

Phoronix - Sun, 11/14/2021 - 18:35
This week marked the release of QEMU 6.2-rc0 as the first test candidate for this upcoming update that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Mesa's Turnip Driver For Qualcomm Adreno GPUs Now Exposes Vulkan 1.2

Phoronix - Sun, 11/14/2021 - 18:18
Mesa's open-source "Turnip" driver that provides Vulkan support for Qualcomm Adreno graphics hardware and complementary to the Freedreno Gallium3D driver can now handle Vulkan 1.2...

Modernized Zstd Merged Into Linux 5.16 For Much Greater Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 11/14/2021 - 09:16
While Zstd is used in various areas of the Linux kernel for data compression from transparent file-system compression with the likes of Btrfs to allowing kernel modules be compressed with this Zstandard algorithm, the in-kernel code had fallen years outdated. Finally with Linux 5.16 that Zstd in-kernel implementation is now being brought up to modern standards and delivering better performance too...

Microsoft Has More SMB3/CIFS Enhancements For Linux 5.16, Including For Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 11/14/2021 - 05:28
Another batch of SMB3/CIFS client changes were submitted and merged today for the Linux 5.16 merge window. Plus the KSMBD changes were also merged today for that in-kernel SMB3 file server...

AFS, 9p, Netfslib Wired Up To Use Newly-Merged Folios In Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Sun, 11/14/2021 - 04:18
Merged at the start of the Linux 5.16 cycle was the long in development memory "folios" code. That initial pull had the changes to the kernel page cache and memory management code while now before ending out the merge window is converting some file-system code to using folios...

DXVK-NVAPI 0.5 Released With NVIDIA DLSS 2.x Bits, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 23:17
DXVK-NVAPI as the project providing NVIDIA driver API integration "NVAPI" around DXVK/VKD3D-Proton is out with a new feature release...

Linux 5.16 To Support AMD SEV/SEV-ES Intra-Host Live Migration

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 22:00
Last week was the main set of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes for Linux 5.16 that introduced RISC-V hypervisor support and AMD PSF control bit support, among other changes. A second set of KVM changes were sent out on Friday that is headlined by having AMD SEV/SEV-ES intra-host migration support...

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