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      VirtIO VSOCK MSG_ZEROCOPY To Begin Landing For Linux 6.7: More Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 September, 2023

    The first of three parts for MSG_ZEROCOPY preparations for the VirtIO-Vsock driver have been queued into net-next ahead of planned introduction in the Linux 6.7 kernel as another means of achieving greater performance within virtual machines...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/VirtIO-Vsock-MSG-Zerocopy

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      Intel Has Another Series Optimizing Linux Performance With PCP High Auto-Tuning

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 September, 2023

    Intel's open-source software engineers are known for many great performance optimizations to the Linux kernel. Over the years Intel has contributed countless performance optimizations to the kernel and related Linux components that have made significant improvements not only for Intel hardware but x86_64 as a whole and at times CPU architecture independent improvements. One of their newest performance optimizing patch series is around Per-CPU Pageset (PCP) high auto-tuning...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Intel-Linux-PCP-High-Auto-Tune

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      Intel's Habana Labs Driver Quietly Drops References To The Greco AI Processor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 September, 2023

    Announced last year at the Intel Vision conference was the Habana Labs Gaudi2 and Greco AI hardware. Since then we've seen a lot of Linux kernel driver work happen for enabling the Gaudi2 second-generation training and inference AI processor while there hasn't been anything real in the way for Greco, which was the successor to the Goya AI processor. Now references to Habana Labs Greco are being removed from the driver...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Habana-Labs-Driver-No-Greco

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      Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 September, 2023

    Qt 6.6 is nearing release for this open-source and cross-platform toolkit while out this morning is the release candidate...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Qt-6.6-Release-Candidate

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      OCRmyPDF 15.0 Released For Optical Character Recognition Of PDF Files

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 September, 2023

    A major update to OCRmyPDF is now available, the open-source project that can work on scanned PDFs and other PDF documents to add an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to files for allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. OCRmyPDF makes it a breeze in dealing with scanned PDF text files and now with OCRmyPDF v15 is even better...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/OCRmyPDF-15

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      Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 September, 2023

    Queued up into the Btrfs file-system driver's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.7 cycle is the Temp-FSID (Same-FSID) feature that is being pursued for use by Valve's Steam Deck game console. The functionality is to overcome a limitation of allowing Btrfs to mount two different devices holding the same file-system image and therefore the same file-system ID...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-6.7-Btrfs-Same-FSID

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      Intel Continues GCC Compiler Preparations For AVX10 & APX

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 September, 2023

    Since announcing the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AVX10 back in July, Intel's open-source compiler engineers have been busy preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler toolchains for these major CPU extensions to be found with future Intel processors...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Intel-More-GCC-APX-AVX10

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      The Downfall Mitigation Impact For Xeon E-2300 Series On Linux 6.5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 September, 2023

    Last month the Downfall CPU security vulnerability was disclosed that impacts various AVX/AVX-512 workloads. Now that there's been a few weeks for the Linux kernel code to settle around the mitigation and the latest Intel CPU microcode becoming more broadly available, here is a fresh look at the performance impact of the Downfall mitigation on affected AVX workloads.
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      www.phoronix.com /review/downfall-xeon-e2300

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      Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 September, 2023

    Ahead of the formal announcement on Tuesday, Mozilla today uploaded the Firefox 118.0 release binaries as the latest monthly update for this cross-platform web browser...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Firefox-118-Released