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EEVDF Scheduler On The Verge Of Being "Complete"

Phoronix - Sat, 07/27/2024 - 20:49
Merged one year ago for Linux 6.6 was the EEVDF scheduler as a replacement to the CFS code and designed to provide a better scheduling policy for the kernel and being more robust. With a new set of patches for this "Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First" scheduling code, it's nearing the point of officially being completed...

Linux VFS Fix For 5 Year Old Bug That Could Cause Corruption, Security Issues Or Crash

Phoronix - Sat, 07/27/2024 - 19:00
Ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window set to close tomorrow, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent in a set of two VFS fixes. One of the fixes is more noteworthy that is for a five year old bug that could cause on-disk corruption, security issues, or a kernel crash...

UBIFS File-System Being Hardened Against Power Loss Scenarios

Phoronix - Sat, 07/27/2024 - 18:36
While most Linux file-systems are rather robust in recovering when the system experiences a power loss, the UBIFS file-system is more prone to problems when a power-cut happens. With patches submitted for the Linux 6.11 merge window, UBIFS is seeing some hardening so it can better cope with the loss of power...

KDE Drives Fixes Into Its Triple Buffering, Adds Konsole Feature To Save Terminal Output

Phoronix - Sat, 07/27/2024 - 18:18
In addition to refining the KDE Human Interface Guidelines, KDE developers have been busy with a variety of other tasks this week in polishing their open-source desktop stack...

Open-Source Apple GPU Vulkan Driver Merged For Mesa 24.3

Phoronix - Sat, 07/27/2024 - 08:15
Merged today for Q4's Mesa 24.3 feature release is a brand new open-source Vulkan driver: Honeykrisp, the driver providing Vulkan API support for Apple Silicon GPUs as part of the Asahi Linux effort...

Linus Torvalds Addresses His Latest ARM64 Annoyance: Installing Compressed Kernel Images

Phoronix - Sat, 07/27/2024 - 02:57
Following Linus Torvalds receiving an Ampere Altra Max workstation from Ampere Computing, he's been dabbling more with ARM64 now that it affords him more AArch64 compute power than his Apple Silicon powered MacBook. Torvalds kicked off the Linux 6.11 merge window by landing some of his own code to further enhance the ARM64 kernel and as we approach the end of the v6.11 merge window this weekend, he's merged some more ARM64 code...

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