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Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October, 2024

Now that sched_ext was upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel as part of the many great features in Linux 6.12, Fedora's kernel builds are prepared to enable this innovative scheduler feature that allows for new scheduling policies to be loaded via (e)BPF programs...

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Google Updates Patches For AutoFDO+Propeller Optimized Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October, 2024

Google engineers have been working on support for the Linux kernel to leverage AutoFDO feedback directed optimizations and Propeller optimizations when compiling the Linux kernel with LLVM/Clang. In turn this can help Linux systems see 2~10% better performance thanks to the more optimized kernel...

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Giga Computing Announces GA On Their AmpereOne Servers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October, 2024

After years of AmpereComputing talking about AmpereOne AArch64 server processors, it looks like we are finally on the cusp of seeing broader availability of the processors and servers/motherboards for this ARM server platform up to 192 cores. At the end of August I finally received a temporary review system with the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship SKU. That server was the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR and is supposed to be seeing availability real soon. Now the latest on the AmpereOne front is Giga Computing (Gigabyte) announcing general availability of their servers...

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NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October, 2024

NetworkManager 1.50 released on Wednesday as the newest version of this software commonly used on the Linux desktop for managing wired and wireless network connections...

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An Automated Gentoo Linux System Updater Developed Via GSoC

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 August, 2023

Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a student developer took the initiative in working on an automated Gentoo Linux system updater to help begineers and ease the roll-out of security updates to users...

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Linux 6.6 Will Avoid Unnecessary Kernel Panics On AMD Zen Systems

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 August, 2023

As part of the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) updates submitted today for the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a quirk/workaround for dealing with current AMD Zen systems where a processor bug could lead to erroneously increased error severity and unneeded kernel panics...

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Multi-Grained Timestamps Submitted For Linux 6.6

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 August, 2023

In addition to the fchmodat2 system call, another early pull request submitted by Microsoft's Christian Brauner even before the Linux 6.5 kernel was released is one to introduce multi-grained timestamps with Linux 6.6. Multi-grained timestamps are intended to address an issue exhibited with NFS around caching and the current coarse-grained timestamp handling used for (in)validating caches...

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F2FS & Btrfs Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 6.4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 April, 2023

In addition to EXT4 seeing some performance optimizations and folio conversion for Linux 6.4, the Btrfs and Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) drivers are also seeing some nice enhancements with this next Linux kernel version...

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System76-Scheduler 2.0 Released With PipeWire Integration, Performance Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 April, 2023

Last year the Pop!_OS software developers at System76 introduced system76-scheduler as a Rust-written user-space daemon intended to auto-configure CFS and dynamically manage process priorities. They've added various features to improve the Linux desktop responsiveness and performance while today they rolled out system76-scheduler v2.0 as the latest iteration of this process scheduler...