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Here's an interesting read from the YUZU (Nintendo Switch emulator) developers:...

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Contrary to popular belief, Intel's GPU architecture since Gen8 is actually quite advanced, as in supporting many modern concepts expected from a low-level...

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AMD does the right thing by focusing upon the only LTS of the Linux world that actually matters in the real world:

UBUNTU 20.04 LTS with...

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First of all, HUGE thanks for DXVK!

Another HUMONGOUS thanks for being able to configure DXVK so easily with dxvk.conf!

Reducing...

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I do have immense respect for You for being the inventor of NIR, but is Intel's Xe going to be so much better than AMD's Navi (inside both upcoming next-gen...

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In case anyone is wondering since when NVIDIA became so power-efficient (remember, they definitely weren't in this position since forever [GeForce FX...

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What's actually interesting here is this little detail:

Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq schedutil

Now when checking the value...

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Yes, schedutil with rate_limit_us set to 0 really did solve the issue (though admittedly I haven't tried with the default value of 10k, since I wrote...

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That's why I already had asked Michael if he could do another round of testing with the schedutil governor on Linux 5.5, since there is also the fundamental...

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I have since tried out schedutil with rate_limit_us set to 0 with intel_cpufreq (i.e. intel_pstate=passive) [default value with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS with...

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Why use a value of zero?
Simple:
Because Android does it this way, too!

The person I set up the Ryzen notebook for complained...

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Just recently I configured an AMD Ryzen laptop for someone, and this is what I observed:

- the performance governor is not able to hit the...

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As Linus Torvalds himself already said: "Reality is messy!"

Same applies to using a mutex for locking.

Here is what...

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Michael
Any ETA on integrating the aforementioned kernel benchmark posted by the blog post author into the Phoronix Test Suite?