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[linuxgeex]

So NetworkManager will stop advertising frequencies as supported that are within those supported by the configured regulatory domain, leaving it only...

[linuxgeex]

Not involving the CPU makes it orders of magnitude faster if the accesses are sparse, because it doesn't deplete the CPU caches. So from a performance...

[linuxgeex]

This isn't going to get adopted, because mov/mp4 are controlled by MPEG-LA and they want nothing to do with AV1. So it will be a bastardised standard,...

[linuxgeex]

You're right that swap != memory, even when it is backed by a memory device like NVDIMM or NVMe.

However you're wrong about copying. With...

[linuxgeex]

This is long overdue, and at the same time they need to exercise the same consideration for swap-backed memory performance tiers... ie ZRAM, PCIe SSD,...

[linuxgeex]

Swap can improve performance even if you have more memory than you need, but only if you have long-lived processes which have large amounts of seldom-touched...

[linuxgeex]

You are a braver birdie than I. Once upon a time I used ntfsclone --metadata to preserve the FS structure before making changes and then upon seeing my...

[linuxgeex]

You're semi-correct about the memory model. You're right that they switched to little-endian. But they also switched to a 4K page table TLB, and they...

[linuxgeex]

Good job researching Project Denver. Now finish reading the rest of Wikipedia, in particular the part with this supporting reference: https://semiacc...

[linuxgeex]

phoronix Please Please Please add an option to vote up articles and these photos, lol. I think you'd find the results gratifying and it'll help you pin...

[linuxgeex]

To be clear, ARM themselves dropped 32-bit instructions in the ARM-V9 ISA, and their hundred-series Cortex product lineup. Having an unused instruction...