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MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux
MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux
40 Minutes Ago - Linux Kernel - Multi-Gen LRU - Add A Comment

It's been a while since there have been any new advancements or performance optimizations to talk about for Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel two years ago as a very exciting kernel innovation. But that's changing now with some fresh performance optimizations being worked on for the MGLRU code.

5 December

Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use
Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use
5 December 08:30 PM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 25.04 Roadmap - 4 Comments

Canonical's Matthieu Clemenceau as the Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Foundations Team has provided a public roadmap around some of the plans for Ubuntu 25.04. This next Ubuntu Linux (non-LTS) release that is due out in April is set to enjoy more performance optimizations and other exciting bits.

NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build
NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build
5 December 10:13 AM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 565.77 - 10 Comments

For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was released as the first stable build in the series.

Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels
Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels
5 December 06:54 AM EST - Linux Kernel - No Feature Levels In The Kernel - 62 Comments

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel.

Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V
Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V
5 December 06:34 AM EST - RISC-V - RISC-V + Imagination PowerVR - 12 Comments

The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR "Rogue" graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this PowerVR driver was catering to ARM SoCs with the Rogue graphics while now the open-source driver is being extended to work on RISC-V too.

4 December

OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance
OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance
4 December 11:09 AM EST - Linux Networking - OpenVPN Data Channel Offload - 12 Comments

In development for several years has been the OpenVPN DCO Linux kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to provide for much faster virtual private networking (VPN) performance. It's looking like the lengthy review process on OpenVPN DCO is about wrapping up and leaving hope that it will be ready to premiere in next year's Linux 6.14 kernel.

VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal
VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal
4 December 06:03 AM EST - Desktop - Better Progress Indicators - 34 Comments

VTE-based terminals on Linux like Ptyxis are now seeing support introduced to better display progress state for long-running processes with a more visually pleasing progress bar. Microsoft's Windows Terminal has already supported this feature while now with systemd beginning to support using these Operating System Command escape sequences, Linux terminal support is on the rise.

3 December

AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub
AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub
3 December 08:50 PM EST - Radeon - ROCm 6.3 - 15 Comments

Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack. While some good additions, when the announcement went live ROCm 6.2 software was still showing up as the latest and the open-source code via GitHub wasn't yet reflecting ROCm 6.3... That changed today.

Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support
Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support
3 December 09:00 AM EST - Graphics Cards - 64 Comments

Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today. The embargo lifts today on the new Intel Arc B-Series graphics cards with initial availability next week. Like the prior generation Intel graphics and as discussed already in many Phoronix articles, Battlemage is still treated to fully open-source graphics driver support on Linux.

Rustls Multi-Threaded Performance Is Battering OpenSSL
Rustls Multi-Threaded Performance Is Battering OpenSSL
3 December 06:14 AM EST - Programming - Rustls Benchmarks - 166 Comments

The Rustls project as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and an alternative to the likes of the widely-used OpenSSL and Google's BoringSSL has published some new performance figures. When looking at the multi-threaded server performance of Rustls, its performance is typically outperforming BoringSSL by a significant margin and downright dominating over OpenSSL.

2 December

NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support
2 December 02:09 PM EST - Mesa - Vulkan 1.4 - 14 Comments

Years ago when new OpenGL spec releases would occur, it could take months or years for the open-source Mesa drivers to catch-up in supporting the latest versions... Thankfully in the Vulkan space it continues to prove to be a very different story. As we've seen with prior Vulkan specs, today's Vulkan 1.4 spec release is greeted by same-day Mesa patches.

AMD Per-Core Energy Counter Support Slated For Linux 6.14
2 December 10:00 AM EST - AMD - Per-Core Energy Monitoring - 2 Comments

While the Linux 6.13 merge window just closed yesterday in landing all of the new features and functionality for that first kernel version of 2025, already for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle to follow a feature was queued up early this morning in a TIP branch: AMD per-core energy counter support.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires
2 December 08:47 AM EST - Intel - Pat Gelsinger Retires - 92 Comments

While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today.

Llamafile 0.8.17 Brings New Web UI For This Easy-To-Distribute AI LLM Framework
2 December 06:34 AM EST - Free Software - Llamafile 0.8.17 - 1 Comment

Llamafile 0.8.17 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this Mozilla research project for making it easy to distribute and run AI large language models (LLMs) within a single file. As implied by its name, Llamafile leverages Llama.cpp along with other open-source software into one consistent framework for helping to make single-file LLM executables a reality.

XWayland Lands Support For xdg-system-bell
2 December 06:15 AM EST - Wayland - XWayland + xdg-system-bell - 14 Comments

Olivier Fourdan has merged support for using the xdg-system-bell protocol by XWayland for dealing with "system bell" functionality for Wayland compositors supporting this newer protocol for ringing the system bell or otherwise implementing a visual indicator that a system bell type event may have been triggered.

1 December

Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements
1 December 08:18 PM EST - Linux Gaming - Lutris 0.5.18 - 9 Comments

Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety of games whether they be native Linux titles, emulated Windows games with the likes of Wine / Proton, or console emulated games and more. Lutris also continues integrating with the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other online game services for providing a nice Linux gaming experience.

Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November
1 December 06:45 AM EST - Phoronix - November 2024 Highlights - 1 Comment

November was filled with interesting Linux benchmarks ranging from the Apple M4 testing kicking off to ongoing AMD Zen 5 benchmarks both for desktops and servers, a lot of exciting upstream kernel activity (and some drama...), and more. Even with the end of year holidays around, there remains new and original content on Phoronix each and every day. During November there were 250 original news articles on Phoronix along with another 14 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured-length benchmark articles.

NVIDIA's New Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device-Private Pages
1 December 06:26 AM EST - Linux Kernel - P2P DMA For GPU-Centric Apps - 2 Comments

NVIDIA engineer Yonatan Maman posted a set of "request for comments" patches this Sunday to implement GPU Direct RDMA "P2P DMA" for device private pages. This is the latest in the effort by multiple vendors to allow more efficient data sharing between GPUs/accelerators and other devices like network adapters.

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