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Linux 5.7's USB Changes Range From Apple Fast Charging To Reporting USB-C Orientation

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 12:00
With the newly-minted Linux 5.6 kernel is initial support for USB4 based on Intel's Thunderbolt code while for Linux 5.7 is a wide variety of other USB changes...

FSINFO System Call, Mount Notifications Sent In For Linux 5.7 To Provide Better Storage Details

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 08:04
Red Hat's David Howells has sent in pull requests introducing the new fsinfo() system call and mount/superblock notifications and as part of that a general notification mechanism for the kernel...

Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 03:05
In the past using the Wayland-based GNOME Shell session and other Wayland compositors has generally resulted in a performance hit in going through (X)Wayland but that is much less so these days. Here are some initial benchmarks of Ubuntu 20.04 running various Steam Linux gaming benchmarks both under the default X.Org-based session and then again when using the Wayland session and its (X)Wayland support.

Split Lock Detection Sent In For Linux 5.7 To Spot Performance Issues, Unprivileged DoS

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 01:46
The previously reported work on split lock detection due to its big performance hit is now queued up for Linux 5.7...

Google's OpenTelemetry Reaches Beta For Open-Source Telemetry Purposes

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 01:21
Nearly one year after announcing OpenTelemetry as the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects, Google has announced today OpenTelemetry has advanced to its beta phase...

Linux 5.7 Staging's Spring Cleaning Sees Almost 30k Lines Of Code Dropped

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 21:10
Greg Kroah-Hartman began sending in his pull requests this morning for the areas of the Linux kernel he oversees. With the staging area changes for Linux 5.7 there is some nice spring cleaning...

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