Feral's GameMode 1.8.2 Fixes Hybrid CPU Core Pinning

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Feral's GameMode 1.8.2 Fixes Hybrid CPU Core Pinning

GameMode as the open-source daemon from Feral Interactive to optimize Linix system performance on-demand when running games is out with its first release of 2024...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GameMode-1.8.2-Released

[JEBjames]

Michael

Typo?

"Linix"

[voodoo20]

It surely can, but it surely must not touch things about which it have no understanding. CPU boost must be handled by bios and never must be handled by any OS. Period.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

It surely can, but it surely must not touch things about which it have no understanding. CPU boost must be handled by bios and never must be handled by any OS. Period.

What? So BIOS / UEFI knows about all of the tasks the OS wants to run, which cores they need to be placed on, what battery / thermal / acoustic preference the user has, etc.? Scheduling is extremely complex these days.

[Type44Q]

It surely can, but it surely must not touch things about which it have no understanding. CPU boost must be handled by bios and never must be handled by any OS. Period.

BIOS settings should be for establishing/limiting parameters for max performance but as pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2 observed above, that's hardly enough.

[mos87]

NO games but a Game Mode haha classic

[fong38]

NO games but a Game Mode haha classic

Plenty of games, probably even most games