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Linux 6.11 Lands Support For getrandom() In The vDSO

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 02:06
Going back two years has been the effort for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in order to enhance the performance. This work has yielded as much as 15x the performance in showing very fast while being secure user-space RNG needs. A few weeks back Linus Torvalds was unconvinced by adding getrandom() to the vDSO, but after going back through the patches he gave it another go. Today the work has managed to be mainlined for Linux 6.11...

Rust Linux Kernel Code Prepares For CPU Mitigations Handling

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 01:43
The latest Rust for the Linux kernel work led by Miguel Ojeda is on preparing the Rust kernel code for various CPU security mitigations...

Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.17193.4 Released With Initial Battlemage Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 21:53
Intel today released IGC 1.0.17193.4 as the newest version of the Intel Graphics Compiler that is used for their compute stack on Windows/Linux as well as by their Windows graphics driver for shader compilation...

AMD Reveals More Zen 5 CPU Core Details

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 21:00
As a follow-up to last week's AMD Zen 5 overview with the Ryzen 9000 series and Ryzen AI 300 series, today the embargo has lifted on some additional Zen 5 CPU core details.

F2FS, exFAT & Btrfs File-System Changes In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 20:45
While not as notable as the nice EXT4 performance optimization making it into Linux 6.11 or features like XFS real-time FITRIM and self-healing Bcachefs on read I/O errors, the Bcachefs, F2FS, and Btrfs file-systems saw smaller updates for the Linux 6.11 kernel cycle...

Linux 6.11 Upstream Now Defaults To A Better SATA Link Power Management Policy

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 18:58
It's not too often that the ATA pull request for a new Linux kernel merge window has much worth mentioning. With Linux 6.11 there is a change to the kernel defaults worth noting over the default SATA link power management policy. In this case most Linux distributions have been setting a better default themselves and is now a case of the upstream kernel defaults catching up...

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