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[FLHerne]

This shows just how foolish AMD's underinvestment in the kernel (and software generally) has been.

Generational performance improvement from...

[FLHerne]

Not disputing the above comments, but they don't seem relevant?

As the article says, the kernel's algorithms are used for (de)compressing...

[FLHerne]

Yes -- and KDE does that today (as of Plasma 5.19); I believe recent GNOME versions do too.

David Edmundson wrote a good blog post about...

[FLHerne]

Reverse the logic in that case -- ACO was written to be the new backend for RADV, so of course it fits perfectly with RADV's lowering passes and overall...

[FLHerne]

That regression only affects very specific workloads -- specifically, when multiple processes are fighting to read the same page(s) of memory -- and shouldn't...

[FLHerne]

Yes, and it's fixed - that was in last week's list....

[FLHerne]

No. There's a mostly-working implementation in a git branch (described in this blog post), but it doesn't look as though Sven's had time to get it polished...

[FLHerne]

Thank you for your work on this, and providing polite, useful explanations even when faced with the sadly-usual Phoronix spam.

(I still don't...

[FLHerne]

Within a few weeks/months the cache will be enabled by default, and ENABLE=1 would become a no-op whereas DISABLE=1 will become the only meaningful setting....

[FLHerne]

He wrote:

So either this project can't fully succeed, or its developers found some solution that Eric and the Broadcom hardware team missed....

[FLHerne]

Don't, it doesn't work. There are tools that patch the binary in-memory after it's been loaded. There are tools that hook into the kernel and modify syscalls...

[FLHerne]

You can't do this even with closed-source; there's no reliable way to determine if the binary's been modified.

So the solution is just like...

[FLHerne]

No, you can't...? https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...er/147554.html...

[FLHerne]

There is some basic CUDA support in 5.2. https://cgit.kde.org/kdevelop.git/commit/?id=64d7d49 . I'm not sure what you can do with it....

[FLHerne]

Deleted: I was completely wrong.