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Benchmarking The Linux Kernel With An "-O3" Optimized Build

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 21:00
Stemming from last weeks Linux kernel patches suggesting an -O3 experimental option for all CPU architectures and Linus Torvalds rather quickly shooting it down, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the Linux kernel performance when the kernel image is rebuilt with the -O3 optimization level rather than -O2.

AMD ROCm 5.2 Released With New rocWMMA Library

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 17:44
AMD has released ROCm 5.2 as the newest version of its open-source GPU compute stack...

Radeon Software For Linux 22.20 Driver Prepared With Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, RHEL 9.0 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 17:28
For consumer Radeon GPUs the "Radeon Software for Linux" packaged driver version has been on the 22.10 series since the end of March. For AMD Radeon PRO professional/workstation graphics the advertised "Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise on Linux" driver is still the 21.Q4 driver from last December. AMD appears to be finally prepping to release the "22.20" packaged driver as the next feature release to this packaged AMD Linux driver stack for those not relying just on the upstream kernel and Mesa...

Microsoft's "Dzn" Vulkan-On-D3D12 Adds Working Pipeline Cache

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 17:11
The Microsoft Dozen "Dzn" code within Mesa that allows for the Vulkan API to be implemented atop Direct3D 12 for benefit on Windows now has a working pipeline cache implementation...

LLVM 15.0 Planning For Early September Release - Important For RDNA3 Graphics Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 17:00
LLVM release manager Tom Stellard of Red Hat has laid out the planned LLVM/Clang 15.0 release schedule for this next major version of this open-source compiler stack...

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