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July 30, 2025 - Hackaday

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July 30, 2025  Hackaday

Linux 6.17 Improves NUMA Locality For SMP Call Rather Than Deferring To Random CPU Core

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 08:45
After all of these years of Linux dominating the high performance computing (HPC) space and other industries, one might think (most) all the interesting performance nuggets have been uncovered and well thought out and robust fallbacks in place across all important code paths. As we showcase almost each cycle, interesting new performance bits to be uncovered within the Linux kernel. For Linux 6.17 thanks to a NVIDIA engineer is applying a better fallback for NUMA locality rather than simply picking a random CPU core...

Longtime Linux Kernel Engineer With 14 Years At Intel Is Now At Meta

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 08:20
Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel developer onboard at Meta...

Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 08:06
Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...

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