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Linux 6.19 Scheduler Feature Being Disabled Due To Performance Regressions

Phoronix - Sat, 01/24/2026 - 01:00
Queued into tip/tip.git's "sched/urgent" Git branch today is a patch to disable the kernel scheduler's NEXT_BUDDY functionality that was re-implemented back during the Linux 6.19 merge window. It turns out to cause some performance regressions that have yet to be otherwise addressed...

VVenC H.266 Encoder Rolls Out More ARM Optimizations For Nice Performance Gains

Phoronix - Sat, 01/24/2026 - 00:08
Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM and I have run some comparison benchmarks using a NVIDIA GB10 SoC with the Dell Pro Max GB10...

Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 23:12
In addition to the release today of Vulkan 1.4.340 with the new descriptor heap "VK_EXT_descriptor_heap" extension and three other new extensions, The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group has also published the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone...

AMD Ryzen AI Software 1.7 Released For Improved Performance On NPUs, New Model Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 22:18
AMD today released a new version of Ryzen AI Software, the user-space packages for Microsoft Windows and Linux for making use of the Ryzen AI NPUs for various AI software tasks like Stable Diffusion, ONNX, and more...

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