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Ice Lake Xeons Will Ramp Up Frequencies Slower, So Linux Is Preparing A Workaround

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 09:14
While being very eager to learn more about Intel next-gen Ice Lake Xeon processors as their move in the server space finally from 14nm to 10nm+, we continue to learn new tid-bits from the open-source Linux kernel activity...

Linux 5.9 To Allow Defaulting To FQ-PIE Queuing Discipline For Fighting Bufferbloat

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 08:43
Flow Queue Proportional Integral controller Enhanced (FQ-PIE) that has been mainline for a while in the Linux kernel's networking code will now be supported as an option for the default queuing discipline (qdisc) with the Linux 5.9 kernel...

JEDEC Publishes DDR5 Standard - Launching At 4.8 Gbps, Better Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:31
JEDEC today published their long-awaited JESD79-5 DDR5 SDRAM standard...

AMD Launches The Ryzen Threadripper PRO For Workstations

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 00:30
Building off last year's successful Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series and the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X that launched back in February, today AMD is announcing the Zen 2 based Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors targeted for workstation usage.

Mesa 20.2's Nouveau Enables HMM, OpenCL SVM Now Supported

Phoronix - Tue, 07/14/2020 - 23:28
The open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver stack reached a new milestone today with the user-space code in Mesa 20.2 finally flipping on the Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support...

ReactOS Hires Developer To Work On Their Open-Source Windows Storage Stack

Phoronix - Tue, 07/14/2020 - 22:43
The storage capabilities for ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project has long been in poor shape relative to the other subsystems, but ReactOS Deutschland has hired a developer to work full-time on making improvements in storage and related areas...

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT Memory Scaling Performance Under 100 Different Tests

Phoronix - Tue, 07/14/2020 - 21:51
For those thinking of picking up one of the new AMD Ryzen 3000XT series processors and weighing whether it's worthwhile on your budget picking up DDR4-3600 memory or other higher frequency DDR4 modules, here are some fresh benchmark results with the Ryzen 9 3900XT looking at 100 different tests on Linux and showing how the performance changes from DDR4-2133 through DDR4-3800...

Linux 5.9 To Allow For Toggling Energy Efficiency Mode On Kaby Lake CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 07/14/2020 - 21:28
The patches talked about last month for a new "energy efficiency" tunable for the Intel P-State driver for Kabylake / Coffeelake CPUs is set to go into Linux 5.9 for those wanting to increase the energy efficiency of these CPUs on Linux albeit with reduced performance...

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