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      Pipe FMODE_NOWAIT Support Sent In For Linux 6.4 As A 10~23x Performance Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May, 2023

    While the Linux 6.4 merge window is closing this weekend, today on the last full day of the period is Jens Axboe submitting pipe FMODE_NOWAIT support as what he's described as a big performance and efficiency improvement...
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      RISC-V With Linux 6.4 Adds Hibernation / Suspend-To-Disk Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May, 2023

    One of the missing RISC-V features now in place for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is system hibernation / suspend-to-disk support...
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      Intel ISPC 1.20 Released: Smaller & Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May, 2023

    Intel software engineers have released a new version of their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) as their C language variant with extensions for enhancing single-program, multiple-data programming for both CPUs and GPUs...
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      Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May, 2023

    While these days Linus Torvalds is mostly dealing with herding new code into the Linux kernel and being a gate keeper rather than actively developing new kernel code himself, for the in-development Linux 6.4 he's found himself doing a bit of coding...
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      KDE Developers In Germany Planning For Plasma 6.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May, 2023

    Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham shared that key KDE developers are currently in Germany for an in-person Plasma 6.0 development sprint...
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      Steam Beta Now Honors KDE & GNOME Global Scaling Factor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 May, 2023

    Today's Steam client beta will be a delight for some Linux gamers with the Steam client finally recognizing the GNOME and KDE desktop global scaling factor for text sizing...
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      AMD openSIL Will Eventually Replace AGESA, Supporting Both Client & Server CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 May, 2023

    For those that haven't yet watched the AMD openSIL presentation from the OCP Regional Summit in Prague from April, the most interesting takeaway was deserving of its own article... AMD openSIL is planned to eventually replace the well known AGESA and that it will be supported across AMD's entire processor stack -- just not limited to EPYC server processors as some were initially concerned but will support all AMD processors...
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      Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Increases Instruction Heap - Fix For Overwatch

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 May, 2023

    Intel's ANV open-source Vulkan driver has increased its instruction heap size to 2Gb in order to address a hang experienced with the game Overwatch while this is also likely to help other software/games moving forward...
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      AMD Virtual NMI Support For KVM Virtualization Merged Into Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 May, 2023

    Going back to mid-2022 AMD engineers have been working on Virtual NMI support with SVM for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) as an efficiency optimization. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel the AMD VNMI support has been merged...