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      Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June, 2023

    Microsoft's latest contribution to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack is enhancing their Direct3D 12 driver to support AV1 video encoding with the VA-API interface...
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      EXT4 With Linux 6.5 Will See Much Faster Parallel Direct I/O Overwrite Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June, 2023

    Ted Ts'o has submitted all the EXT4 feature changes for the Linux 6.5 merge window. EXT4 this round is seeing various clean-ups, bug fixes, and other enhancements but there is one performance optimization worth calling attention to...
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      Linux 6.5 Delays x86 FPU Initialization As Part Of Cleaning Up The Kernel Boot Process

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    The in-development Linux 6.5 kernel is shifting to initializing the x86 floating-point unit (FPU) initialization later in the boot process as part of a broader effort for trying to clean-up the Linux kernel boot process at least on x86/x86_64 systems...
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      Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    "Some people relax with a nice drink by the pool, I relax by playing around with inline [Assembly code]," as a nice quote of the day as Linus Torvalds explained after he took on improving upon a performance optimization patch that was proposed for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window...
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      Linux 6.5 Now Defaults To AMD P-State "Active" EPP For Modern Ryzen Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    The power management and ACPI feature changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel. As usual, it's most interesting on the Intel and AMD fronts with the power management changes for this kernel that will be released as stable in August...
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      Blender 3.6 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Ray-Tracing, AMD HIP RT On Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    Blender 3.6 is out today as the latest exciting update for this open-source, cross-platform 3D modeling software. Exciting with Blender 3.6 is adding Intel hardware ray-tracing support when making use of Arc Graphics. AMD graphics cards on Windows can also enjoy HIP ray-tracing but sadly isn't supported yet for Linux...
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      Linux 6.5 To Enhance Load Balancing For Intel Hybrid CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    Ingo Molnar submitted today the scheduler updates destined for the Linux 6.5 kernel. Most noticeable with the CPU scheduler changes are enhancing SMP (Hyper Threading) load balancing for Intel Core CPUs of a hybrid design with a mix of P and E cores...
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      Building A Full Linux Debug Kernel Optimized From 53GB To 25GB Heap Use

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    Processing the vmlinux.o object with objtool has been the most memory intensive step of the Linux kernel build process. Prior patches have already worked to reduce this objtool memory use while compiling the Linux kernel and a big patch series now set for Linux 6.5 is set to sharply reduce the maximum heap use...
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      Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    Bcachefs hopes to finally merge in Linux 6.5 while for those wanting a mature Linux file-system with all the bells and whistles, Btrfs is a good candidate worth considering. With Linux 6.5 there is a continuation of the recent Btrfs trend around performance improvements...