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The PREEMPT_RT Locking Code Is Merged For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Tue, 08/31/2021 - 07:30
It looks like the real-time (RT) patches for the Linux kernel are almost to the point of being fully upstream in the mainline Linux kernel. Merged for Linux 5.15 is the PREEMPT_RT locking code that represents a bulk of the outstanding RT patches...

Experimental Ray-Tracing For Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Nears Upstream Mesa

Phoronix - Tue, 08/31/2021 - 04:20
It looks like within the coming days that the Vulkan ray-tracing support for Mesa's "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver will be upstreamed for Mesa 21.3...

Linux 5.15 I/O Can Achieve Up To ~3.5M IOPS Per-Core

Phoronix - Tue, 08/31/2021 - 03:00
In addition to the block subsystem changes submitted for the Linux 5.15 merge window, Jens Axboe also sent in a separate pull request for this new kernel cycle to provide support for bio recycling. In turn this can enhance the Linux I/O limits by around 10%...

Pyston Developers Join Anaconda To Continue Their Speedy Python Implementation

Phoronix - Tue, 08/31/2021 - 01:52
Pyston began many years ago as an open-source JIT-based Python implementation developed by Dropbox. But after Dropbox dropped Pyston development, it went dormant for several years before the developers decided to create their own start-up around it and released Pyston 2.0. The Pyston developers are now joining well known Python organization Anaconda...

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