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RADV Driver Sees Dramatic Improvement To Reduce CPU Overhead For Draw Calls

Phoronix - Thu, 09/15/2022 - 02:46
Mike Blumenkrantz has been working under contract for Valve on the open-source Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation for Mesa but that work has carried over into the Mesa Vulkan drivers too where there is common overlap. His recent work has been focused on lowering the CPU overhead of some operations with the RADV Vulkan driver...

systemd's mkosi-initrd Talked Up As Better Alternative To Current Initrd Handling

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 21:30
Red Hat engineer and systemd developer Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek presented on Monday at the Linux Plumbers Conference on a new design for inital RAM disks (initrd) making use of the new systemd mkosi-initrd project...

Linux Kernel Live Patching Working Fairly Well For Millions Of Meta Servers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 20:02
Meta/Facebook has turned to kernel live-patching (KLP) with Red Hat's Kpatch the the Linux kernel livepatch infrastructure to handle live updates to "several million servers". Meta engineers shared during this week's Linux Plumbers Conference around the successes they've had with it as well as troubles encountered along the way...

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