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GCC 12 Looking At Enabling Its Vectorizer For "-O2" Optimization Level

Phoronix - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 08:30
The GCC compiler when using the default "-O2" optimization level is likely to be slightly faster with next year's GCC 12 release as the developers are looking at enabling the vectorizer options by default...

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 03:00
Last month were our benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G on Linux for that new desktop APU with Zen 3 cores and Vega graphics available through retail channels. Due to reader interest and with the Ryzen 5 5600G still readily available via Internet retailers, here is a look at the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Linux performance in a variety of benchmarks.

EXT4 Ready With Some New Optimizations - Orphan_File, Moving Discard's Work

Phoronix - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 01:44
It's busy on the Linux file-system front for the 5.15 cycle woth Btrfs adding a degenerate RAID option along with performance improvements to big improvements for XFS and now comes the EXT4 updates...

NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX + Other ARM Platforms Now Supported By Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 21:10
The Arm SoC and platform updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 5.15 kernel...

The Big Batch Of New AMD RDNA2 PCI IDs Is Heading To Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 19:50
Last week I wrote about AMD adding 17 more RDNA2 PCI IDs to their Linux driver which is rather unusual given the amount and the number of PCI IDs already found in the AMDGPU kernel driver for these latest-generation GPUs and the Radeon RX 6000 series already being mid-life. As noted in that article and seemingly in agreement with the various other industry articles following that Phoronix news, it seems to be for some sort of RDNA2 refresh likely. Now those new PCI IDs are being queued up for introduction in the current Linux 5.15 cycle...

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