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3K Lines Of New Rust Infrastructure Code Head Into Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 19:37
Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel...

Linus Torvalds Improves Futex Code To Improve User-Space Accesses

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 19:16
In between managing all of the pull requests being submitted during this two week long merge window for the Linux 6.13 kernel, Linus Torvalds has merged some of his own code this cycle...

Linux 6.13 RDMA Changes Headlined By NVIDIA's New Data Placement Ordering Feature

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 19:00
The RDMA subsystem updates were sent out last Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel cycle. Most notable with the RDMA updates is the NVIDIA Mellanox "MLX5" network driver introducing a new Data Direct Placement (DDP) feature to further help with performance...

Understanding Ubuntu’s Event-Driven System Architecture

Tecmint - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 14:15
The post Understanding Ubuntu’s Event-Driven System Architecture first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux, as we know, is a kernel and not a complete operating system, and it ships with a variety of

The post Understanding Ubuntu’s Event-Driven System Architecture first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD Talks Up Imminent ROCm 6.3 With Big Performance Gains, New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:33
Either due to a mistimed blog post or other factors, a big feature article is out talking up the new ROCm 6.3 features... But the updated ROCm 6.3 open-source GPU compute software doesn't appear to actually be released yet at all their usual sources. In any event there are new features and big performance gains being talked up for ROCm 6.3...

Linux 6.13 PCI: AMD Enables PCIe TPH For Zen 5 Servers, Intel Adds PCIe Cooling Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 05:17
Sent out today were the big set of PCI subsystem updates ready to be merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. Most notable of the PCI updates is PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) with that kernel support worked on by AMD engineers as part of one of the new hardware features found with the AMD EPYC 9005 server processors. Over on the Intel side is the new PCIe cooling driver and other changes...

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