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Linux 6.15 Git Tanked Nginx HTTPS Web Server Performance - Here's The Bisect

Phoronix - Wed, 04/23/2025 - 05:09
With the Linux 6.15 kernel settling down nicely, I've been testing out the current Linux Git state on more systems in looking for any performance changes. Unfortunately this week I ran into a large performance regression affecting the Nginx HTTP(S) web server. Here's a look at that problem currently affecting Linux Git.

CachyOS Linux Distribution Makes More Improvements To Its Handheld Edition

Phoronix - Wed, 04/23/2025 - 03:30
The April 2025 ISO update is out today for CachyOS, the Arch based Linux distribution known for its aggressive out-of-the-box performance on modern hardware...

NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/23/2025 - 02:01
Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver had been Vulkan 1.4 conformant for Turing and newer GPUs, but now with Mesa 25.2-devel it's Vulkan 1.4 conformant going back to Maxwell GPUs. This change is exported to be back-ported to the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release as well for those interested in using this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver...

AMD Ryzen AI Max 300 "Strix Halo" Graphics IP Versions Confirmed

Phoronix - Wed, 04/23/2025 - 00:27
For those that have been wondering about the Linux support and more details around the Ryzen AI Max 300 "Strix Halo" APUs on Linux, here's a brief update...

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Performance On Linux Has Improved A Lot Since Launch

Phoronix - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 22:00
Today's Linux benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K performance has evolved since its launch last October. Taking the launch-day benchmarks from October with the same hardware, we are revisiting the Intel Arrow Lake performance under Linux today using the newest system BIOS and the newly-released Ubuntu 25.04 for seeing how the performance has evolved roughly over the past half-year.

GCC Compiler Adds Targeting Support For XuanTie RISC-V CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 21:41
One of the early features being merged for what will become the GCC 16 compiler following last week's GCC 15 code branching is CPU targeting support for the XuanTie RISC-V processors...

Kmemdump Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help With Memory Dumping & Debugging

Phoronix - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 20:28
Eugen Hristev of Linaro sent out a "request for comments" patch series today proposing kmemdump for the Linux kernel as a new means to assist in debugging driver/system problems by making it easier to dump memory for specific areas/regions...

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