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NVIDIA 465.27 Linux Driver Brings Expanded Laptop GPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 21:52
NVIDIA today released their 465.27 Linux driver as the newest stable build in this current driver series...

AMD Energy Driver Booted From The Linux 5.13 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 21:02
While a lot of new features and improvements have been accumulating for the Linux 5.13 kernel with the ongoing merge window, one of the unfortunate aspects of this new kernel is that the AMD Zen CPU energy driver "amd_energy" is indeed being removed...

IWOCL + SYCLcon 2021 Slides/Videos Published For Lots Of OpenCL, SYCL Technical Talks

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 20:45
Taking place virtually this week has been the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) and SYCLcon. From these events are a lot of interesting presentations for those interested in GPU compute, heterogeneous programming, and industry API efforts...

Btrfs Continues Ironing Out Zoned Mode Support, Some Performance Work

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 19:14
Users of the Btrfs file-system can enjoy a number of improvements with the in-development Linux 5.13 kernel...

Concurrent TLB Flushing For Linux 5.13 Provide A Small Performance Benefit

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 18:29
Linux 5.13's x86 memory management work is bringing a minor performance optimization that is particularly beneficial in light of the CPU security mitigations in recent years that have an impact on the TLB...

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