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GNU Binutils 2.37 Is On The Way - Finally Drops ARM Symbian OS Support

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 19:16
GNU Binutils 2.37 has been branched and the release process initiated for these low-level GNU components likely seeing their v2.37 release later this month...

Linux Will Keep Core Scheduling Disabled By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 18:29
Among the many new features that were sent in so far this week for the Linux 5.14 merge window was the long in-development work on "core scheduling" to reduce the Hyper Threading information leakage risks from side channels and help ensuring deterministic performance on such HT/SMT systems by controlling the resources that can run on a sibling thread. As a follow-up to that article from a few days ago, core scheduling will now be disabled by default...

Linux 5.14 Improving Its Distributed Lock Manager To Allow Message Re-Transmission

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 18:04
The Linux kernel's Distributed Lock Manager as a general purpose DLM for kernel and user-space applications with cluster computing systems is seeing a useful reliability improvement with Linux 5.14...

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opensource.com - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 15:01
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Linux 5.14 With EXT4 Adds Interface To Help Prevent Information Leakage From The Journal

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 08:32
The EXT4 file-system updates have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.14 merge window...

CXL Bring-Up Continues - More Infrastructure For Linux 5.14, "More Meat" For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 23:54
Intel open-source engineers continue working on the bring-up around Compute Express Link (CXL) as the new open standard interconnect built off PCIe aiming to empower next-generation servers...

XFS Sees A Lot Of Cleanups For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 21:00
The XFS file-system continues seeing a lot of work cleaning up the kernel driver code as well as some minor feature improvements heading into Linux 5.14...

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