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Linux 6.6 WQ Change May Help Out AMD CPUs & Other Systems With Multiple L3 Caches

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 01:18
In addition to the EEVDF scheduler replacing the CFS code in Linux 6.6, another fundamental and interesting change with Linux 6.6 is on the workqueue (WQ) side with a rework that can benefit systems with multiple L3 caches like modern AMD chiplet-based systems...

Linux 6.6 SMB Client To Allow Adjusting Cache Time For Directory Contents

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 23:00
With Linux 6.6 the KSMBD server is no longer "experimental" while this new kernel on the SMB3 client side also brings a notable addition: the new "dir_cache_timeout" option to control the cache time for directory contents...

Mesa 23.3 Fixes Zink Rendering For X.Org/XWayland GLAMOR

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 22:39
Mike Blumenkrantz working for Valve's Linux graphics driver team has added implicit sync support to the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver, which in turn now opens this generic driver up for correctly providing GLAMOR rendering with X11 and XWayland environments...

Linux 6.6 Allowing Per-Policy CPUFreq Performance Boost Control

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 20:39
While last week saw the main set of power management updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel, this week a follow-on pull request was submitted -- and merged -- with a few last minute additions...

RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 20:23
More RISC-V architecture updates were merged this weekend for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window...

Zunaid Ali - How-To Geek

Google News - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 20:00
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AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 19:52
Merged overnight were the perf subsystem tooling updates for the Linux 6.6 merge window that is set to close later on Sunday...

LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 03:34
The LoongArch CPU port is seeing a number of new kernel features enabled with Linux 6.6 as well as seeing some new hardware features wired up such as for Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) and allowing LSX/LASX instruction use in kernel-space...

KSMBD Declared Stable - No Longer "Experimental" - In Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sat, 09/09/2023 - 21:30
Back in 2021 Samsung engineers posted KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 server alternative to the likes of the user-space Samba server. KSMBD merged into Linux 5.15 as an experimental SMB server while after two years of fixes and other improvements has now dropped its "experimental" marking...

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