Linux 5.11 Released With Intel Integer Scaling, AMD Performance Boost, RTX 30 KMS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.11 Released With Intel Integer Scaling, AMD Performance Boost, RTX 30 KMS

What better way for open-source enthusiasts to celebrate Valentine's Day than with the stable release of the Linux 5.11 kernel... Linus Torvalds even changed the kernel codename for the occasion to being the "Valentine's Day Edition" kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.11-Released

[tildearrow]

Emoji on the codename?

[Zajec]

Emoji on the codename?

I don't know. Isn't 2021 too early to start using UTF?

[GreenReaper]

Could have used it for the octopus 🐙, saved some space (although, the emoji here seem to show six tendrils, like a squid 🦑- maybe the other two are behind it).

Plus, no need to translate emoji!

[lucrus]

So, for the upcoming 5.12 release, Linus is likely going to change codename again. Let's hope he'll keep using meaningful (somewhat date-based) codenames like this one. And let's hope he'll keep his current good mood too...

[abu_shawarib]

Tried 5.9 and 5.11 on a dav1d benchmark and saw about 23% performance improvement using a 5900x.

[perpetually high]

VirtualBox as of this date still doesn’t work with kernel 5.10 and I’m assuming 5.11 is the same. Fucking pathetic. I’ll be on 5.4 if you guys need me

[hotaru]

VirtualBox as of this date still doesn’t work with kernel 5.10

that hasn't been true for almost a month: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

VirtualBox 6.1.18 (released January 19 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

...

• Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)

[perpetually high]

hotaru that changelog is bogus. I’m using the latest 6.1.19 release and it doesn’t build on the latest 5.10 point release.

[kripteks]

My 5600x manual 4500mhz (performance governor) show that:

Iddle mode:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -e MHz
cpu MHz : 5998.535
cpu MHz : 6336.914
cpu MHz : 5827.148
cpu MHz : 6169.921
cpu MHz : 4497.895
cpu MHz : 5655.761
cpu MHz : 4499.710
cpu MHz : 6336.914
cpu MHz : 5827.148
cpu MHz : 4497.691
cpu MHz : 6336.914
cpu MHz : 5655.761

$ lscpu | grep MHz
CPU MHz: 4496.039
CPU max MHz: 6336.9141
CPU min MHz: 2200.0000


No-Iddle mode allcore used:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -e MHz
cpu MHz : 4499.986
cpu MHz : 4500.005
cpu MHz : 4500.009
cpu MHz : 4499.918
cpu MHz : 4500.003
cpu MHz : 4499.915
cpu MHz : 4499.978
cpu MHz : 4500.010
cpu MHz : 4499.873
cpu MHz : 4499.546
cpu MHz : 4500.007
cpu MHz : 4500.001

$ lscpu | grep MHz
CPU MHz: 4499.971
CPU max MHz: 6336.9141
CPU min MHz: 2200.0000