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AMD Strix Point & Intel Lunar Lake: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 20:45
Last month was a fresh look at the Intel Lunar Lake graphics performance between Windows and Linux while this article is Microsoft Windows 11 Pro vs. Ubuntu 25.04 again but looking at the CPU performance between these competing operating systems. For additional reference, some of the recently completed AMD Strix Point Windows vs. Linux benchmarks were also included for additional insight.

Loongson To Up Linux Kernel Limit To 2,048 LoongArch CPU Cores

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 20:24
Currently when building the Linux kernel for LoongArch processors there is a maximum limit of 256 CPU cores supported but with a pending patch that limit would be upped to 2,048 CPU cores...

Linux 6.16 To Introduce Block Write Streams For NVMe Flexible Data Placement "FDP"

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 18:31
Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has queued up a set of patches being worked on the past number of months around block write streams for making use of NVMe SSDs supporting the NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) specification...

Intel Introducing QAT "GEN6" Driver To The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 18:12
Intel has readied a new "qat_6xxx" driver for the Linux kernel for supporting QAT GEN6 devices with QuickAssist Technology. QAT GEN6 will presumably be found with upcoming Xeon 6 Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids processors while the Linux kernel driver should be introduced for Linux 6.16...

Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling May Be Ready For Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 17:55
Going back to last year there have been patches for adapting the Intel P-State Linux driver with support for Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) as what began as an Arm big.LITTLE feature but since being explored for use by the Intel P-State driver for hybrid CPUs without SMT which for the moment means Lunar Lake SoCs. A new version of the patches were posted on Tuesday and likely to be the last refinement to this patch series...

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