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Optimizing Linux MD Bitmap Code Yields 89% Throughput Boost For Quad SSDs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 19:39
A promising patch for the Linux kernel is optimizing the locking contention and scattered address space for the MD bitmap code to improve both the storage throughput and latency...

IBM Deprecating Linux Drivers For CXL Coherent Accelerators & CAPI Flash

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 19:18
IBM engineers announced they are deprecating the upstream CXL and CXLFLASH Linux kernel drivers with plans to then remove the drivers from the mainline kernel the following cycle. Before getting too worked up when seeing the "cxl: Deprecate driver" patch, this is about the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) that predates the Compute Express Link...

Servo Browser Engine Landed More Performance Optimizations In November

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 18:57
The Servo browser engine project is out with their latest monthly status update to outline improvements made to this Rust-based open-source engine...

NVIDIA Releases EGL-Wayland 1.1.17

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 18:53
NVIDIA published EGL-Wayland 1.1.17 on Monday as the newest update to this Wayland EGL external platform library to provide client-side Wayland support to EGL atop the EGLDevice and EGLStream extensions...

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