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Linux 5.14 To Bring Intel IGC Driver Support For AF_XDP Zero-Copy

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 08:26
After Intel originally proposed zero-copy capability for the Linux kernel's AF_XDP high performance packet processing code years ago and implemented for their higher performance network hardware/drivers, with Linux 5.14 the common Intel "IGC" Gigabit Ethernet driver is set to introduce AF_XDP zero-copy support...

Inkscape 1.1 Released With Command Palette Feature, More Export Options

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 06:48
Following the earlier release candidate, Inkscape 1.1 is now officially available as the latest feature update to this leading open-source vector graphics application...

OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 RC Released With LLVM 12 Toolchain, Linux 5.12 Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 04:53
Following February's release of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2, the release candidate to Lx 4.3 is now available for testing...

Intel P-State Driver Begins Preparing For Hybrid Processors (Alder Lake)

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 01:27
Intel's Linux preparations for Alder Lake -- and more broadly the concept of hybrid x86_64 CPUs with a mix of large Core and small Atom cores -- continues with the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver seeing new work to prepare for Intel's hybrid era...

Red Hat Scores A Huge DM Optimization For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 00:14
Red Hat engineers have scored an impressive performance optimization to the DeviceMapper (DM) code that is now queued up for merging with the Linux 5.14 cycle...

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