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Direct I/O For DMA-BUF Can Yield A Big Performance Win

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 22:41
Smart device manufacturer HONOR has posted a patch series adding direct I/O support to DMA-BUF with the "DMA_BUF_IOCTL_RW_FILE" flag. In turn this direct I/O use can yield significant throughput improvements and lower latency to help with AI model loading, real-time data streaming, and other uses...

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 18:40
Now having shown the very strong AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance for this "Strix Halo" SoC with Radeon 8060S iGPU for its integrated graphics, you may be wondering on the same hardware how this compares to Microsoft Windows 11. Today's article is looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 Pro performance as shipped by HP on their ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop compared to Ubuntu 25.04 with a clean install.

Asahi Linux Highlights Recent Upstream Efforts In Linux 6.15, Other Ongoing Efforts

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 17:00
With the Linux 6.15 kernel soon to debut as stable, the Asahi Linux project issued a new blog post outlining some of the new code they managed to get upstream for this next mainline kernel version as well as some of their other efforts for enabling Linux on modern Apple Silicon hardware...

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning For Good NVIDIA On Wayland Experience, VRR & RISC-V Desktop

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 14:00
A public Ubuntu 25.10 desktop road-map was published today to outline some of the plans that Canonical engineers are beginning to work on ahead of the next Ubuntu Linux release in October...

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