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Ubuntu 25.10 Performance On System76 Thelio Astra / Ampere Altra

Phoronix - Fri, 10/17/2025 - 22:26
With the recent release of Ubuntu 25.10 we have seen some nice performance improvements on the likes of AMD Zen 5 and Intel Lunar Lake compared to prior Ubuntu releases. But what about ARM? In this article is a look at the Ampere Altra performance between Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu 25.10 using the popular System76 Thelio Astra workstation.

AES-GCM Crypto Performance Up To ~74% Faster For AMD Zen 3 With Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Fri, 10/17/2025 - 21:11
Improvements to the Linux kernel's AES-GCM Galois/Counter Mode crypto block cipher code will yield up to 74% faster performance for AMD Zen 3 processors with the Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year...

New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 10/17/2025 - 18:45
In addition to the recent Linux kernel patches out of Intel for Cache Aware Scheduling for better performance, separately, another interesting new patch series was sent out this week for the Linux kernel. The patches rework some low-level Linux kernel memory management code and at least for database workloads the early benchmarks are showing possible 14~18% faster database performance with PostgreSQL...

Fedora Cloud Looks To Switch /boot To Btrfs Subvolume

Phoronix - Fri, 10/17/2025 - 18:28
With Fedora 43 releasing in the coming weeks, Fedora stakeholders are beginning to plot their feature ideas for next year's Fedora 44 release. One of the early F44 feature submissions pending approval is switching /boot on Fedora Cloud images to being a Btrfs file-system subvolume...

Intel Vulkan Driver Adds Support For Xe Driver's Low Latency Hint

Phoronix - Fri, 10/17/2025 - 18:16
One of the early changes merged for the in-development Mesa 26.0 is adding support to Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for supporting the low-latency hint supported by the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...

Linux Graphics Driver Fixes Readied For Linux 6.18-rc2

Phoronix - Fri, 10/17/2025 - 17:57
Ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc2 release on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the week were sent out today. There is the usual assortment of different kernel graphics driver fixes, mostly with the Intel and AMD drivers as usual. In particular a few Intel driver fixes make this week's pull worth mentioning...

Valve Developer Contributes Major Improvement To RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp AI

Phoronix - Fri, 10/17/2025 - 08:42
Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is a massive improvement to benefit the Llama.cpp AI performance...

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