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Linux 7.1 To Retire UDP-Lite - Allows For Better Performance With Cleansed Code

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 18:31
The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle is set to retire UDP-Lite support. The UDP-Lite protocol allowed for partial checksums where potentially damaged/corrupted packets are still delivered to the application. Since the Linux 2.6.20 days there has been UDP-Lite support but the kernel is now set to retire it given breakage that has persisted for years and cleaning up the networking code can yield a performance advantage for non-UDP-Lite users...

RADV Driver Lands Another Optimization: "Missing In RADV For A Very Long Time"

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 18:22
A four year old optimization idea for the RADV driver was scratched off the TODO list last week for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release...

AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 18:05
Last week yet more AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window happening in April...

Linux 7.0-rc4 Released With Hang Fixes, Resolves At Least One Performance Regression

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 05:18
We are down to about one month to go until the Linux 7.0 stable release and out today is Linux 7.0-rc4...

Bcachefs 1.37 Released With Linux 7.0 Support, Erasure Coding Stable & New Sub-Commands

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 02:50
Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37 as the newest feature release to this out-of-tree file-system driver and user-space tooling for this next-gen, copy-on-write file-system...

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