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Linux To Start Seeing Enablement Patches For Intel "Raptor Lake"

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 02:55
Following today's inaugural patch, over the coming weeks we are expected to see Intel Raptor Lake patches beginning to make it out onto the public kernel mailing list for review...

Windows 11 Better Than Linux Right Now For Intel Alder Lake Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 11/12/2021 - 21:40
While we are used to running AMD and Intel benchmarks between Microsoft Windows and Linux while most often finding that our favorite open-source operating systems normally lead the race from desktops through HEDT and server platforms, when it comes to the Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" that is currently not the case. Going into this round of Windows vs. Linux testing quite curious given some Intel hybrid architecture oddities we have been seeing under Linux, indeed when hitting Windows 11 and an assortment of Linux distributions with benchmarks we were left disappointed. Not only did Windows 11 come out faster overall, but related is now Linux also had much higher run-to-run variance due to the mix of P and E cores with Thread Director not making the wisest choices under Linux.

Faster Ceph With Linux 5.16 Now That Async Dirops Have Been Flipped On

Phoronix - Fri, 11/12/2021 - 20:04
The Ceph open-source distributed storage system can now enjoy better performance out-of-the-box with Linux 5.16...

David Airlie Hacking On Intel Vulkan Video Decode, Crocus Gallium3D VA-API

Phoronix - Fri, 11/12/2021 - 18:11
Red Hat's David Airlie has been working on early support for Vulkan Video API support with Mesa's Radeon "RADV" driver while the past week he spent time working on similar treatment for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver and also resurrecting some unfinished VA-API video acceleration code he was working on for the Intel Crocus Gallium3D driver...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Preparing To Enable DSC-Over-eDP For More Power-Savings

Phoronix - Fri, 11/12/2021 - 16:30
While the AMD Radeon "AMDGPU" Linux kernel graphics driver has supported VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) over DisplayPort connections, until now it hasn't supported the power-savings feature for eDP panels...

What you need to know about cluster logging in Kubernetes

opensource.com - Fri, 11/12/2021 - 16:00

Server and application logging is an important facility for developers, operators, and security teams to understand an application's state running in their production environment.

Logging allows operators to determine if the applications and the required components are running smoothly and detect if something unusual is happening so they can react to the situation.


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