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GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu Continues Dealing With More Blobs In The Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:04
The GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu kernel is now available as the downstream of the newly-christened Linux 6.12 kernel that aims to remove code depending upon non-free microcode/firmware or relying on other elements of code deemed non-free software even with much of today's hardware requiring proprietary firmware for operation...

AMD Begins Adding "GFX950" GPU Support To LLVM For Next CDNA Accelerator

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 06:15
As of today the first handful of commits have landed in LLVM Git ahead of next year's LLVM 20.0 for beginning to enable the AMDGPU compiler back-end for "GFX950", the next iteration of the CDNA family for Instinct accelerators...

Linux 6.13 Quadrupling Workqueue Concurrency Limit

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 05:32
The Linux kernel Workqueue (WQ) is used for handling asynchronous process execution. For the past many years there has been an upper limit on the number of workqueue execution contexts per CPU at 512, but with Linux 6.13 that is being quadrupled to a limit of 2048...

Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 04:34
Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux. With Ubuntu 25.04 they are now using the -O3 compiler optimization level by default and there has been other efforts like better performance tooling on Ubuntu and frame pointers by default. Another area they have been exploring is making use of Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) for faster performance in certain scenarios...

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