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Canonical + SUSE Engineers Call For More Extensible Linux System Calls Moving Forward

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 23:52
Aleksa Sarai of SUSE and Christian Brauner of Canonical presented at last week's Linux Plumbers Conference with a call for more extensible system calls moving forward in aiming to enhance the Linux user-space API...

Red Hat Has Been Working On "stalld" As A Thread Stall Detector + Booster

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 22:11
Red Hat engineers in recent weeks began working on a new project called "starved" though recently renamed to "stalld". The stalld service is for serving as a Linux thread stall detector...

Linux Receiving Generic Casefolding Implementation For File-Systems

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 21:14
In making for easier code re-use among file-systems and allowing a unified implementation to focus on a single code-base for optimizations moving forward, a generic case-folding implementation for Linux file-systems is being prepared for mainline...

Linux Patch Proposed To Double Raspberry Pi 4 Transfer Speed To eMMC/SD Storage

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 16:29
Manjaro Linux developer Tobias Schramm brought to light that only single data rate mode is currently being used for micro SD cards and eMMC storage with Raspberry Pi 4 Model B SBCs. But with a two line kernel patch, the double data rate mode can be enabled...

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