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Zstd 1.5.7 Lands In Linux 6.15 For Better Performance & APIs For Intel QAT Acceleration

Phoronix - Thu, 03/27/2025 - 20:26
Linux 6.15 keeps getting more exciting... The big Zstd update has landed! The in-kernel Zstandard compression code is finally re-based against the newer upstream state that brings better performance as well as new APIs for allowing Intel QAT acceleration by Intel hardware offering QuickAssist Technology. This Zstd code is relied upon by Btrfs transparent file-system compression and other in-kernel users for compression/decompression...

Linux 6.15 To Gain New Option For Those Building The Kernel Without Virtual Terminal

Phoronix - Thu, 03/27/2025 - 20:02
The printk changes submitted for the Linux 6.15 kernel introduce a new "NULL_TTY_DEFAULT_CONSOLE" Kconfig build-time option for allowing the null TTY to be the default for those building the Linux kernel without virtual terminal (VT) support...

PostgreSQL Database Lands Initial Support For IO_uring: "Can Be Considerably Faster"

Phoronix - Thu, 03/27/2025 - 18:43
As a very exciting improvement for the open-source PostgreSQL database server, it has merged initial support for making use of IO_uring on Linux servers for asynchronous I/O and can provide for some nice performance improvements...

Linux 6.15 Brings Support For New Sound Hardware, Continued SoundWire Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 03/27/2025 - 18:23
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE has submitted all the feature updates slated for Linux 6.15. There is a lot of new audio hardware support and other enhancements that are now merged for this next kernel release...

RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL

Phoronix - Thu, 03/27/2025 - 18:07
Earlier this month Mesa deprecated the Clover OpenCL driver in favor of the modern Rust-written Rusticl Gallium3D state tracker. Clover is expected to be removed in Q3's Mesa 25.2 release while today the RadeonSI driver has decided to preemptively remove its Clover support...

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat16 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/27/2025 - 08:32
NVIDIA has published new Vulkan beta driver builds for Windows and Linux that introduce VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for BFloat16 "BF16" support within shaders...

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