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      Meta Proposes Shared Workqueue For Linux's CFS - Small Throughput Win

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 June, 2023

    Meta engineers have proposed a shared workqueue "swqueue" feature for the Linux kernel's CFS scheduler that can help with a small throughput performance improvement and slightly better latency, particularly for AMD systems with multiple CCXs...
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      Intel Linux Graphics Driver Continues Work Toward Per-Client Memory Reporting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 June, 2023

    One of the interesting Intel i915 DRM kernel driver patch series being worked on recently is fdinfo memory statistics with the ability to report per-process/client memory statistics around vRAM use...
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      Virtual PCM Test Driver Coming With Linux 6.5 To Help With Audio Testing & Fuzzing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 June, 2023

    Last month I wrote about the virtual ALSA driver being developed for the Linux kernel. That driver has now morphed into the Virtual PCM Test driver and is on its way with the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...
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      Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Sees More Performance Tuning, Regression Fixing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 June, 2023

    Following my recent RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL benchmarking for various games and workloads, Valve's Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz was hopping on some of the benchmarks where this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation lagged behind the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
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      VMware SVGA Graphics Driver Switches To NIR By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 June, 2023

    VMware's SVGA Gallium3D driver that provides OpenGL support within guest virtual machines running with VMware virtualization products is now finally defaulting to using the modern NIR intermediate representative rather than Gallium3D's TGSI...
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      AMD Continues Work On Enhancing GPU Support With Xen Virtualization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 June, 2023

    In recent months AMD open-source graphics driver engineers seem to be taking more interest in supporting the Xen hypervisor with their graphics hardware. It's not clear yet externally if this is just due to customer demand or other yet-to-be-announced interest in Xen...
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      RISC-V KASLR Support For Linux Revised Again

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 June, 2023

    While the upstream Linux kernel support for RISC-V continues to improve with new ISA features, support for more RISC-V SoCs, and other enhancements, in some areas the open-source RISC-V code continues to play catch-up with the other mature architectures supported by the Linux kernel. One of the areas still pending is enabling KASLR support for RISC-V on Linux to enhance system security...
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      Linux cpupower Tool Being Extended For AMD P-State Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 June, 2023

    The cpupower tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree can be used for easily querying and setting various CPU power-related features. This tool now has patches pending for extending it for exposing more functionality found within AMD's modern P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...
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      Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 Released

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 June, 2023

    Following this weekend's release of Debian 12.0, the Debian GNU Hurd port has been released that rather than utilizing the Linux kernel is making use of GNU Hurd...