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Understanding Ubuntu’s Event-Driven System Architecture

Tecmint - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 14:15
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Linux, as we know, is a kernel and not a complete operating system, and it ships with a variety of

The post Understanding Ubuntu’s Event-Driven System Architecture first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD Talks Up Imminent ROCm 6.3 With Big Performance Gains, New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:33
Either due to a mistimed blog post or other factors, a big feature article is out talking up the new ROCm 6.3 features... But the updated ROCm 6.3 open-source GPU compute software doesn't appear to actually be released yet at all their usual sources. In any event there are new features and big performance gains being talked up for ROCm 6.3...

Linux 6.13 PCI: AMD Enables PCIe TPH For Zen 5 Servers, Intel Adds PCIe Cooling Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 05:17
Sent out today were the big set of PCI subsystem updates ready to be merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. Most notable of the PCI updates is PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) with that kernel support worked on by AMD engineers as part of one of the new hardware features found with the AMD EPYC 9005 server processors. Over on the Intel side is the new PCIe cooling driver and other changes...

Linux 6.13 KVM Eliminates An "Awful Idea", Many x86_64 Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 03:49
The KVM changes were merged yesterday for Linux 6.13 in further enhancing the open-source virtualization stack...

GCC 15 Ends Support For Altera Nios II Embedded Processors

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 02:29
The GCC 15 code compiler that is releasing as stable in the early months of 2025 has removed all support for the Altera Nios II CPU target...

SilverStone XE360-SP5 & XE04-SP5 For Cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 4U Servers

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 00:56
With my recent AMD EPYC 9005 1P 4U server build using a Supermicro H13SSL-N motherboard, SilverStone kindly sent over their two Socket SP5 cooling options for AMD EPYC processors: the XE04-SP5 4U-compatible heatsink fan and then the XE360-SP5 AIO liquid cooler with a triple 120mm fan radiator to allow effectively cooling up to the new 400~500 Watt EPYC Turin processors. Here is a look at these two high-end AMD EPYC cooling options for those carrying out 4U EPYC 9004/9005 server builds along with thermal and performance benchmark results.

FUSE Enhancements Submitted For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Mon, 11/25/2024 - 23:30
The FUSE feature enhancements were submitted today for the Linux 6.13 kernel as part of improving the file-system in user-space capabilities...

Large Folio Patches For EXT4 Show Some Nice Performance Gains

Phoronix - Mon, 11/25/2024 - 21:50
Huawei engineer Zhang Yi posted a set of nine patches today for enabling large folio support for regular files with the EXT4 file-system. These patches enable large folios for EXT4 on regular files except when using FSVERITY, FSCRYPT, or the journaled data mode. Long story short, these large folio patches can deliver some nice performance gains for both reads and writes...

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