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Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 19:00
Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development. VK_EXT_present_timing ended up debuting at the end of November within the Vulkan 1.4.335 spec update to much excitement for providing functionality to obtain information on the presentation engine's display for accurate timing information and to assist in scheduling a present to happen no earlier than a desired time. This is a big win for helping avoid game stuttering and more while now the Mesa support for it is nearly complete and could be merged soon...

DM Changes Merged For Linux 6.19 - Much Better Performance For "Verity" Integrity

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 18:47
Linus Torvalds merged the Device Mapper "DM" changes overnight that include one stand-out change for Linux 6.19...

Intel llm-scaler-vllm Beta 1.2 Brings Support For New AI Models On Arc Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 18:29
Following yesterday's release of a new llm-scaler-omni beta there is now a new beta feature release of llm-scaler-vllm that provides the Intel-optimized version of vLLM within a Docker container that is set and ready to go for AI on modern Arc Graphics hardware. With today's llm-scaler-vllm 1.2 beta release there is support for a variety of additional large language models (LLMs) and other improvements...

R36s - Hackaday

Google News - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 17:04
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Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 09:50
The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some enticing core networking improvements like a big performance improvement for heavy transfer workloads, Bluetooth PAST enablement, and more. Plus a lot of wired and wireless networking driver activity and new hardware enablement...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 09:25
Merged today to the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optimizing for better performance...

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