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Wayfire 0.5 Wayland Compositor Brings Latency Optimizations, More Protocols

Phoronix - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 03:30
Wayfire, a Wayland compositor inspired by the likes of Compiz with different desktop effects, is out today with a new feature release...

Checkpoint/Restore Of Unprivileged Processes Sent In For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Wed, 08/05/2020 - 02:19
Linux 5.9 is bringing another feature that's long been baking and of interest to a growing number of stakeholders... checkpoint/restore functionality of unprivileged processes...

Defaulting Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs To Better Linux Driver Is Held Up By Analog Outputs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 23:08
Switching from the "Radeon" to "AMDGPU" kernel driver on Linux is possible for Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards and doing so can mean slight performance benefits, the ability to run the AMDVLK or RADV Vulkan drivers, and simply making use of this better maintained driver. But having these original GCN graphics cards default to the modern AMDGPU driver appears held up by the lack of analog video output support with that driver...

After 5 Years, FSGSBASE Support Finally Ready For Linux To Enhance AMD/Intel Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 21:45
The Linux kernel work for making use of the x86_64 FSGSBASE instruction since Intel Ivy Bridge and since then AMD CPUs also is set to finally land with the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel. The FSGSBASE support has the possibility of helping Intel/AMD CPU performance especially in areas like context switching that had been hurt badly by Spectre/Meltdown and other CPU vulnerability mitigations largely on the Intel side...

Linux 5.9 Set To Bring "Close_Range" System Call - Coordinated With FreeBSD Developers

Phoronix - Tue, 08/04/2020 - 21:17
The close_range() system call is intended to allow efficiently closing a range of file descriptors (or all file descriptors) of the calling task. This system call was devised in cooperation with FreeBSD developers...

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