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      Bcachefs Merged Into Linux-Next

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

    While Bcachefs was not merged for the Linux 6.6 cycle with one of the concerns raised by Linus Torvalds being that it hadn't been vetted via the "linux-next" staging area, that process has now begun to raise hopes of potentially seeing the new file-system driver introduced for Linux 6.7...
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      Intel's DRM Scheduler Patches Updated That Are A Prerequisite For Merging The Xe Driver

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

    One of the driver additions we've been eager to see for the mainline Linux kernel that didn't pan out in time for the recently closed Linux 6.6 merge window is the Intel Xe DRM kernel graphics driver as a modern alternative to their i915 driver. The Xe driver better supports non-x86 CPU architectures, better designed and more performant around their modern integrated and discrete GPUs, and overall is able to make better design choices and improvements in being a clean sheet driver design compared to all the code that has built up in i915 over the years. But for getting the Xe driver upstream even in experimental form, first some necessary DRM scheduler patches need to be ironed out...
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      TCP Authentication Option "TCP-AO" Support Nears For The Linux Kernel

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

    One of the new Linux networking features we've been looking forward to seeing in the kernel is TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO / RFC5925) as a means of improving TCP security and authenticity. The eleventh iteration of the TCP-AO patches were posted today for the Linux kernel with it looking like work on this network addition potentially wrapping up soon...
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      Mesa 23.3 Lands Optional Support For Allowing Game Tearing On Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    Merged for Mesa 23.3 today is the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) to allow for the "PresentOptionAsyncMayTear" option that can be used to enable tearing under (X)Wayland if desiring peak performance at the cost of possible imperfect rendering...
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      openSUSE Slowroll Released As A Slower Alternative To openSUSE Tumbleweed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    The openSUSE Slowroll distribution is a middle-ground between the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution and the SUSE Linux Enterprise aligned openSUSE Leap with its fixed releases. The new openSUSE Slowroll is a rolling-release-like distribution with updates "every one or two months" but with constant bug/security fixes...
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      Intel Fixing Up Sub-NUMA Clustering For Linux So That It Behaves With RDT

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    Sub-NUMA Clustering with Intel Xeon processors allows for splitting up the CPU cores, cache, and memory into multiple NUMA domains for enhancing the performance of NUMA-aware applications. While SNC can help in a number of cases especially plenty of HPC and server workloads, currently it's not properly supported if making use of Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel CPUs. That is in the process of changing with new Linux kernel patches being worked on by Intel...
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      Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    KDE developer David Edmundson has written an interesting blog post looking at robustness improvements coming with Qt 6.6 via QtWayland compositor handoffs support...
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      VKD3D-Proton 2.10 Released With More Performance Improvements, Game/Driver Workarounds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's stellar Linux graphics/Proton team has released VKD3D-Proton 2.10 as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop Vulkan that allows for modern Windows games to run on Linux atop Steam Play...
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      Linux 6.6 Enables Tracking Per-CPU Cgroup CPU Usage Stats

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    With the Linux 6.6 merge window the cgroup changes brought one change worth mentioning...