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      XFS Large Extent Counts Feature No Longer Considered Experimental

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June, 2023

    As another feature on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel cycle is the large extent counts feature of the XFS file-system no longer being treated as "experimental" but is now considered safe to deploy...
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      Linux 6.5 Preps For IBM POWER's "DEXCR"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June, 2023

    Patches being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window prepare initial support for DEXCR that is found in recent Power ISA specifications...
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      Libreboot To Provide New Firmware ROMs With CPU Microcode Removed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June, 2023

    CPU microcode updates are commonly done in the name of security fixes and resolving functionality issues.. In recent years, CPU microcode updates have been a much more common -- and important -- occurrence. While all modern CPUs rely on microcode it's just a matter of whether the version used is baked into the hardware or an updated version loaded by the BIOS or OS at boot time, a "vocal minority" of users are unhappy with CPU microcode being included in Libreboot ROMs. Thus moving forward there will be alternative builds of Libreboot for different motherboards with the CPU microcode stripped out in the name of software freedom...
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      Linux 6.6 Adding Support For NCT6799D Sensors Found In Various Newer Motherboards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June, 2023

    If your newer desktop motherboard has a NCT6799D Super I/O controller or one of the variants like NCT6799D-S, the Linux 6.5 kernel is set to introduce support for this ASIC in order to expose hardware sensor support under Linux...
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      F2FS Preparing To Land Async Buffered Write Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June, 2023

    The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is preparing to land async buffered write support into the Linux kernel as another performance win for this flash-optimized file-system...
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      Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June, 2023

    Red Hat engineers are working to deal with Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) being too costly for mitigating Spectre V2 and Retbleed on older Intel Xeon Scalable processors. A new patch has been floated to disable IBRS when idle and is working out well at least for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 while isn't clear yet if it will be accepted into the upstream kernel...
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      SVT-AV1 1.6 Squeezes Out Even More Performance For CPU-Based AV1 Encoding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June, 2023

    SVT-AV1 1.6 is now available as the latest version for this leading CPU-based AV1 encoder that is now enjoying 30~40% faster performance with high quality presets...
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      Revised Intel Shadow Stack Support May Be Ready For Linux 6.5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June, 2023

    Intel engineers had sent in Shadow Stack support for Linux 6.4 as this feature part of Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) but it hit a last-minute snag during the merge window with issues raised by Linus Torvalds. Now it looks like the cleaned-up Shadow Stack code will be re-submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...
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      GCC Lands AVX-512 Fully-Masked Vectorization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June, 2023

    Stemming from looking at the generated x264 video encode binary and some performance inefficiencies, SUSE engineers have worked out AVX-512 fully masked vectorization support for the GCC 14 development code...