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Why TensorFlow Lite Has Been Running Slower On Recent Linux Kernels

Phoronix - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 06:49
The Linux 5.0 to 5.9 kernel benchmarking posted this week showed TensorFlow Lite running slower since the Linux 5.5 kernel... On top of looking at the new Linux 5.9 regressions, I also spent some time bisecting and figuring out what happened for TensorFlow Lite last year that has at least for the system under test caused it to run slower for all the kernel releases this year as shown in the aforelinked article.

GNOME's New Power-Profiles-Daemon Sees "v0.1" Release

Phoronix - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 05:42
As work that should come together during the GNOME 3.40 cycle, the power-profiles-daemon project has just tagged its "v0.1" inaugural release as part of the work on better power management handling / power profiles easily configurable from the GNOME desktop...

WSL2 Adding Support For Mounting Physical Disks, EXT4 Access And More From Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 04:24
The latest functionality Microsoft is adding to their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) is support for attaching and mounting physical disks within WSL2...

Mesa 20.3 Picks Up New Capabilities To Help With Display Presentation Jitter, Stuttering

Phoronix - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 03:51
Being merged today to Mesa 20.3-devel were some improvements aiming to help with display presentation jitter and hopefully avoid stuttering in the frame-rate...

Kernel Bisecting Has Never Been Faster Than With AMD EPYC + AMD Threadripper

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 23:30
While Zen 3 is just around the corner, current-generation Ryzen Threadripper and EPYC processors continue to impress particularly for build boxes and tasks like bisecting the Linux kernel's massive codebase...

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