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      Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 August, 2023

    Maíra Canal with Igalia has sent out a set of patches for exposing GPU usage statistics for the Broadcom graphics processor found within the Raspberry Pi 4 single b oard computers...
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      AMD P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux Updated, Will Be Enabled By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 August, 2023

    AMD's Preferred Core feature continues working its way toward the Linux kernel for this functionality that's been around since Zen 2...
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      Glibc Git Lands Another FMA-Optimized Function - 24% Mean Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 August, 2023

    A few days ago Intel compiler expert H.J. Lu landed an FMA-optimized log2 function for the GNU C Library that could yield up to a 69% performance improvement on tested Intel Skylake processors. Merged today to Glibc Git was another FMA-optimized function...
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      Intel Making Improvements For CPU Microcode Updating Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 August, 2023

    Intel engineers are working on enhancing the x86_64 CPU microcode updating experience under Linux and in particular the work is ultimately around better supporting of late microcode loading on Linux for Intel systems with a primary focus on Intel servers / enterprise users...
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      Go 2 For "Breaking With The Past" Will Never Come

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 August, 2023

    An update on the Go programming language roadmap was shared today that highlights some recent improvements for backward compatibility to Go and why the developers now no longer expect to ever have a "Go 2" release that would break compatibility with existing Go 1.x programs...
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      IO_uring Adding Support For Vectored FUTEX Waits In Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 August, 2023

    With the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle another exciting change was recently queued up within the block subsystem's "for-next" branch: IO_uring futex/futexv support...
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      Rust Abstractions Posted For Sockets & Other Fundamental Network Bits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 August, 2023

    While Linux 6.1 added the initial Rust infrastructure as an alternative programming language for writing new kernel modules, so far as of Linux 6.5 much of the upstreaming effort has been around adding new abstractions and supporting additional subsystems for making the Rust capabilities in the kernel more complete. The latest patch series is working on adding Rust abstractions for networking sockets and other fundamental networking bits...
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      Linux 6.6 Bringing Initial Support For Intel Lunar Lake's VPU4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 August, 2023

    In addition to all the interesting open-source graphics driver updates coming with Linux 6.6 like AMD FreeSync Panel Replay, Nouveau uAPI additions for NVK, Intel PSR for old laptops, and many other GPU driver changes, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem with its AI accelerator "accel" framework/subsystem is rolling out initial support for the VPU4 coming with Intel Lunar Lake processors...
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      Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.40 Released For Small Footprint & High Performance JVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 August, 2023

    Released last week was Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.40 as the latest feature update to this high performance JVM that focuses on being optimized for a small footprint...