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IO_uring Sees More Improvements With Linux 5.7 For This Exciting I/O Tech

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 12:00
Within minutes of Linux 5.6 being released on Sunday evening, Jens Axboe was already with sending in the start of the various storage areas to the kernel that he oversees with their feature updates for Linux 5.7...

Lutris 0.5.5 Linux Game Manager Adds Humble Bundle Support, Initial VKD3D Support

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 08:46
Lutris 0.5.5 is out today as the newest version of this Linux game manager to assist in installing both native and emulated games on Linux. Lutris continues to expand the scope of its "runners" for improving the Linux gaming experience...

Linux 5.6 Kernel Released With WireGuard, USB4, New AMD + Intel Hardware Support

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 07:00
Linus Torvalds just announced the release of the Linux 5.6 stable kernel a few minutes ago. This also means the Linux 5.7 merge window is now open for business...

Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview With Intel Xeon Scalable

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 05:15
There is less than one month to go until the official release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" but we've already begun experimenting with it for weeks across a variety of platforms. For the most part we have found Ubuntu 20.04 slated to offer some nice performance improvements, especially if upgrading from the existing LTS series, Ubuntu 18.04. In this article are our initial benchmarks looking at the Intel Xeon Scalable from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to the current 20.04 near-final state.

Amazon Engineer's Patch For Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switching Revved

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 03:20
Earlier this month there was the proposal by a Linux kernel engineer for Amazon to flush the L1 data cache on context switches as another safeguard against the ever increasing CPU vulnerabilities...

Intel NIR I/O Vectorization Ported From The AMD ACO Back-End - ~10% Performance Boost

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2020 - 19:47
Lead Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver developer Jason Ekstrand has ported an optimization from the Valve-backed AMD "ACO" compiler over to the NIR code-base for delivering some sizable performance improvements...

KDE Developers Wrap Up March By Working On Back-End Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2020 - 19:36
This week in KDE land there weren't too many new features introduced but a lot of low-level work to foster future features...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Laptop Driver Unlikely To Land For Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2020 - 16:17
While we were hoping to see the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver introduced in Linux 5.7 for improving the AMD Ryzen Linux laptop experience, that now looks quite unlikely...

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